From: pgarceau@submergedsoftware.com (Paul Garceau) Subject: Re: Too Much Mail Volume 3 Dec 1997 21:57:15 -0800 Message-ID: <199712040152.UAA15020.cygnus.gnu-win32@bw.webex.net> References: Reply-To: pgarceau@submergedsoftware.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 2 Dec 97 at 15:38, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote: > In article <6j3hsQAppfB@mike.franken.de>, > Michael Hirmke wrote: > >Hi, > > > >>I second the idea of moving this mailing list to a newsgroup. > > > >No. This isn't a high traffic mailing list compared to a lot of other > >lists I am on. > > I vote emphatically against moving this to a newsgroup. I don't think > that the traffic justifies it. Also, we'll all be subject to much more > spam both from the newsgroup spammers and from the spammers who harvest > mail addresses from newsgroup headers. > > If cygwin or some well-connected site wanted to set up a private NNTP > server to host a private newsgroup, however, I think that would be a > great idea. I can agree to this. It means, of course, that whoever does set up the NNTP server will need to make doubly-certain that they can't be attacked by any email moles that are capable of rapeing an NNTP server by stripping out all of the email addresses stored therein. Peace, Paul G. Chronicles of Aurum: Book I A Journey Into the Fantastic http://www.submergedsoftware.com/ ICQ#977283 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".