[1293] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Is COM-PRIV Available On USENET?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pixar!aura.nbn.com!sjk@uu.psi.com)
Sat Aug 31 02:46:06 1991
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 23:31:04 PST
In-Reply-To: <22912.683514730@apple.com> "moon!apple.com!fair"
From: pixar!aura.nbn.com!sjk@uu.psi.com
To: pixar!uupsi!com-priv
My concern is that gatewaying com-priv to an "inet" Usenet newsgroup
will reduce the effective signal to noise ratio. I agree that many
com-priv topics deserve high(er) bandwidth, yet I suspect an increase
in prattle after it's gatewayed to Usenet. Examples of existing
newsgroups with mostly-high s/n ratio which started as mailing lists
could convince me otherwise.
And has anyone noticed how there's less interpolated/included text in
people's follow-up replies than you typically see in Usenet articles
(much of which can be software filtered, tho')?
Whatever you folks prefer... I'll go back to lurking. :-)
Scott J. Kramer UUCP: {sun,ucbvax}!pixar!aura!sjk
P.O. Box 3392 Internet: sjk@aura.nbn.com
San Rafael, CA 94912
