Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : Al Robres
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Mon Jul 23 2001 09:07 am

Hello Al!

23 Jul 01 05:47, you wrote to Gary Gilmore:

 GG>> Do we -really- need to keep importing newsgroups as echoes?

 GG>> Useless...  if someone wants to read a newsgroup, I think they'll
 GG>> be more likely to read it via the net, not after it's been
 GG>> through the wringer to FTN format.  ('Course, this is just my
 GG>> opinion, and tough if it gets your knickers in a twist.)

 AR>  Not my knickers, but there again I can see a can of worms opening up
 AR> here as some just love to debate and fight about just about anything.
 AR> Is the glass half full or empty....

 AR>  Personally, I like to have as many options as possible. Much like
 AR> carrying other networks, some newsgroups do full in the gaps.

 AR>  A good example is my interest in DVDs

So lets open up 2 Walmarts side by side..

A little more prudence should be exercised when doing the gating thing... I am 
all for Operating System newsgroups being imported and that is the case, thanks 
to the efforts of both Dale Ross and Sean Rima.

However supplanting Fidonet style for Internet style, I just dont know.

Smothering Quality with quantity is not a good thing, and if nothing from 
Fidonet is put back in, welp.

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