From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Possible newsgroup.
To: sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com (Charles Sandmann)
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 12:19:17 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: antony AT werple DOT mira DOT net DOT au, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> > Personally, I would like to get the newsgroup only, and convert the mailing
> > list to announcements.
> > 
> > I do NOT want to sift through duplicate messages in each place!
> 
> Some people don't have news access (or need their daily email fix ...) so
> the mailing list will stay much the same, with the news traffic sent to
> the mailing list (and mailing list traffic will get posted into news).

Now the question is whether the gatewaying will be immediate, message-by-
message, or whether it will be digested. See below.

[snip]

> The gateway software will start running on delorie.com, but if mv's news
> server runs behind (or DJ's link gets too loaded) we may move it.
> 
The only gateway I have personal experience with is the one that
digests comp.lang.ada into an info-ada mail list. It is very difficult
to follow up on a message when it comes in a 20-message digest; also,
the timing of the digester leaves something to be desired. I've spoken
to the manager of that list, and apparently the listserv that runs
it becomes _extremely_ disk-greedy when it gateways to and from news.

The traffic on comp.lang.ada is roughly equal to that on djgpp, say
20-30 messages per day, so I conjecture that the problems will be similar.
How do you plan to operate the gateway? Message-by-message or digest?

Is there some way to get a count (just an informal one) of the number
of djgpp readers who will _not_ be able to switch to the newsgroup?
I will switch.

Actually, part of the problem with comp.lang.ada, I think, is that
most of the digest traffic is going to/from government sites where 
they have not figured out how to do news, or cannot do so for security 
reasons. And my understanding is that there are a _lot_ of digest 
subscribers. I guess _that_ won;t be a problem with djgpp, eh?:-)

Cheers -

Mike Feldman