what about having a newsgroup (root.cern.ch for example?)

From: Pasha Murat (murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov)
Date: Thu Oct 30 1997 - 19:06:12 MET


	Hi everybody,

"roottalking" activity on this mailing list reached a level where we could 
think about chanding the form of our communication:

it is not always convenient to receive by mail *all* the questions 
and *all* the answers. 

While a year ago having everybody communicating via mailing list 
allowed to provide extremely fast response which was very important 
for keeping project moving on, these days I'm already having kind of 
trouble with cleaning up my mailbox - there are too many mail messages 
coming to roottalk mailing list. 
Personally I'd prefer to read most of them in "off-line" mode.

Looking how people around solve similar problems I found that
establishing a newsgroup with all the correspondence 
directed primarily to there could (at least partially) help in
keeping private mailboxes from getting overloaded. Of course this 
could somewhat slow down the response (not always you are automatically 
notified about a newsposting) but I don't see a serious 
problem with it: one could always send CC to rootdev@hpsalo.cern.ch ...

					Regards, Pasha



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