[R] Newsgroup

[Renaud Lancelot]

I agree with you: the list is VERY busy. This is sometimes a problem for
modem users with rather poor internet facilities (my case). An
alternative to your proposal would be to adopt the same behaviour as for
S-news: reply directly to the caller who summarizes to the group. Of
course, it's more time-consuming for the caller, but it should divide at
least by 2 or 3 the number of messages on R-Help...

Best,

Renaud

ggrothendieck at yifan.net wrote:
> 
> This morning I had 37 messages from the r-help list in my mailbox.
> I think its becoming excessive for an e-mail list.
> 
> I wonder if whoever looks after this list could either move or gateway
> it to a usenet group?
> 
> That would also eliminate the need for special purpose archiving and
> searching facilities since the site:
> 
> http://groups.google.com
> 
> would automatically provide that. That site also allows one to both read
> and post via the web (with a delay of several hours) in case one does not
> care to use newsgroup software.
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