I'm not at all keen on this idea of transforming adsm-l into a newsgroup :
I like the idea that the adsm-l belongs to a group of like minded people who
are "known" and have subscribed.  Apart from having to be more proactive
with a newsgroup than a mailing list, it is possible we could lose out on
some of the detailed and honest answers we get (including those informally
from the adsm developers who contribute a lot) if the contents were more
widely distributed and available via a newsgroup.

My vote is for staying as a mailing list.  With a decent email system it is
very easy to filter adsm-l messages into a separate mailbox and peruse,
delete and keep as required.

Regards, Sheelagh
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> Subject: ADSM newsgroup
> Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at 
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> Date:    6/30/98 9:38 AM
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> As far as I could grasp there is no newsgroup for adsm discussion. This
> mailing list of course is doing a good job of compensation of the newsgroup
> absense. But I personally find it a little bit inconvenient moving 50
> messages a day into trash. Judging on the size of the mailing list (1332
> persons) I believe we can register a newsgroup.
>
> What do you think?
>
> regards, Anton, storage manager at SONY, Moscow
>