Re: News group

From: Graeme Wood <jaw@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:10:49 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Laurent Verhoest wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Looks like this list is very active and dynamic. Is there any
> equivalent newsgroup (feed by the mailing list), like the one for bind
> (both a newsgroup and a mailing list.
>
> If not, why not turning it into a newsgroup, in addition to the
> mailing list, so that people who don't have access to NNTP but SMTP can
> still debate ? Something like comp.proxy.squid or simplier comp.squid.

Oh please don't! This list is largely SPAM free and I would very much like
it to remain that way. One sure-fired way of getting SPAM into a mailing
list is by gatewaying it into a newsgroup.

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