[274] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Mon Mar 4 20:11:54 1991
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1991 18:22:59 CST
In-Reply-To: Bob Lummis <bob@aecom.yu.edu>
To: Bob Lummis <bob@aecom.yu.edu>, com-priv@psi.com
On Mar 4, 5:18pm, Bob Lummis wrote:
} If you look at the complete list of listservs, you see many disciplines
} and many serious topics. And if you subscribe to some of them you see
} that they are actively used by professionals for discussions of content
} within their own field. As opposed to netnews groups which are practically
} all either computer-related topics or frivolous topics.
}-- End of excerpt from Bob Lummis
You are taking issue with the content of netnews and making it sound like you
are being critical of the netnews paradigm. I think that listservs have
some good uses. I don't see why listservs have to be BITNET specific.
I subscribe to them all the time and I'm not on BITNET. However, listservs
suffer from many of the same problems as large internet mailing lists. They
fill up mailboxes with individual copies of information. This is not necessary.
They frequently are linked to netnews newsgroups. This should not be necessary.
[Yes, I know why it is, but someday, these reasons should go away.]
I endorse the idea of a LISTSERV RFC. I think it would be a great idea. I'd
be happy to work on an implementation as well.
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Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
