[I accidentally sent this directly to the poster first. If I could make a suggestion: Maybe the list admin could have the list output a correct Reply-To field. That would be good.] I suggest a dual news/list solution, which has been successfully (at least according to Mr. Udell) deployed by Byte and others. By this I mean a new server which replicates to the mailing list, and a mailing list that replicates to the news server. It works, and gives you pretty much the best of both worlds. Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ mailto:redhand@mop.no
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Mike Pelletier Sent: 5. mai 1999 18:24 To: Paul Jackson Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Paul Jackson wrote:
If "urgent", what I see on these lists is no more time critical than what happens on other popular news groups -- take the python news group as an example, and anyway, my experience with USENET is that it isn't that much slower than email.
...if it ever arrives at all. That's my biggest problem with using USENET. Plus, some people don't have access to a NNTP server, and if they do, it may not carry our group. It may only poll a few times a day. It may have a 24 hour expire. Etc, etc. USENET is notoriously unreliable.
With a 'private' news server, the articles never have to expire (if you're only hosting a handfull of text-only newsgroups, you can afford to do that) so they are always available. They never get lost in propagation. And you still get all the benifits of the news format. If you're really eager to get a comp.sys.zope, great, but I'd still like to have our own server for it.
By private, I don't mean restricted, of course. It's still publicly available, but it isn't connected to USENET.
Mike.
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