Mark, Tim and others,
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Having a newsgroup certainly has it's advantages. However, I'm
concerned
about spammers who automatically harvest email addresses from public
newsgroups. I know that the AT&T email list as well as our email lists
at Tridia prevent someone from downloading a list of participants
directly. It would be possible for someone to scan the archived posts
HTML pages, but I'm not sure that is common practice among the spammers
and they would need to know where to direct the search anyway.
So, I would request that the email list *not* be somehow automatically
combined with the newsgroup. If news/nntp access is needed and should
be
linked to the email list, then I would prefer to have that news group
hosted on a private system *without* forwarding to the rest of Usenet.
BTW, I think the signal to noise ratio on the mailing lists has been
better in general than most newsgroups. I'm not sure why that is the
case. Maybe the slightly more difficult registration process wards off
some less motivated posters? I would hate to see the signal to noise
ratio change for the worse.
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Brian
> RE: VNC Newsgroup
>
> From: Mark J. Laris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 16:00:51 GMT
>
>
> That is entirely up to you. However, I still plan on going through with
> this process. I believe that there is sufficient interest in VNC to support
> both a mailing list and a newsgroup. If you are happy with the list, I'm
> glad. I however believe that the VNC community would be better served if we
> had both a mailing list and a newsgroup. I will use the newsgroup.
>
> Mark Laris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:35 AM
> > To: Mark J. Laris
> > Subject: Re: VNC Newsgroup
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:24:14AM -0600, Mark J. Laris wrote:
> >
> > > I have started the process to create the newsgroup
> > alt.comp.vnc. I have
> > > submitted two proposals already and will make my final
> > submittal next week.
> > > A week later, I will submit the command to create the
> > group. I will post to
> > > this group when this process is complete because I will
> > need all of you to
> > > ask your ISP to carry the group. I will also make postings
> > to many other
> > > newsgroups so that we can get as wide an audience as possible.
> >
> > I will not read the newsgroup, nor will I ask either of my ISPs to
> > carry it.
> >
> > Tim.
> > */
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Brian
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