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Re: Lugnet.robotics and the Robotics List
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:55:44 GMT
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Linc Smith wrote in message ...
> Recently I posted a query (in *.robotics) asking who was still reading
> through the mail list, and why they weren't taking advantage of the other
> services offered by Lugnet. Not one reply, even though I now know that • list
> members make up the majority of traffic.
I read via the mailing list instead of via lugnet for a couple of reasons:
1) My email comes in via IMAP, where my news doesn't. IMAP keeps my
read/unread status on the server, which means that I can read mail from home
or work or pretty much anywhere and the status is kept up to date. Now, I
could subscribe to all of the lugnet groups that I'm interested in via email
and get this same advantage, but I don't really want to do that (I'll
explain why later). The web interface isn't an option for me, I've never
been happy reading email/news through web interfaces (otherwise I would have
given up my news client for dejanews long ago).
2) I personally use news for lower priority items then email. I tend to
read all of my mailing lists every day, and at least skim each item. I read
news every couple of days (or more often if work is light) and often punt
most of the items in a group.
3) I don't think that getting lugnet.robotics via email would be any
different then getting the lego-robotics list through the original listserv.
So I continue to read from the original listserv.
Now, that said, I have no problem with saying that a discussion should be
moved off of the list. Historically one would say "move this off the list
into private email". In the lego-robotics case I have no problem with
saying "move this off the list into lugnet.blah, btw, here is how to read
lugnet.blah". I don't think that many of the recent topics (how many zeros
does a billion have) are relavent anywhere on lugnet though.
Finally, I would like to use this time to bring up one oddity in the way
that lugnet had the lugnet.robotics group setup. It puts Reply-To headers
into the messages, while the lego-robotics list does not. This is annoying,
because if one isn't paying attention then they'll find private emails going
back to the group. I would like it to at least be consistent with the
mailing list, and in the best case I'd like to see the Reply-To's not put in
there by lugnet. Is there a reason why they are there?
thanks,
alex
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 | | Re: Lugnet.robotics and the Robotics List
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| (...) Hmm, perhaps in the case of gatewayed messages going out (i.e., gatewayed out of the lugnet.robotics newsgroup into the lego-robotics mailing list, or out of the lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf newsgroup into the ba-lego mailing list), the Reply-To field (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Lugnet.robotics and the Robotics List
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| Alex Wetmore wrote in message (...) So, I understand that: You _do_ use Lugnet news groups, but you subscribe to the mail list because you are more interested in the robotics group (higher priority) and you would rather it came to you through email. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) This is a possibility that would provide at least one group with a semi-guaranteed semblance of order, but it does not address the problem still existing on the mail list, and thus the proposed (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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