I have 2 reasons NOT to turn ADSM-L into a newsgroup:

1- The newsgroup would become a target for spammers and flamers, turning off
real users of the group.

2- Many of us do not have access to a news server at work.

James Louie
Nabisco

> On Tuesday, June 30, 1998 9:09 AM, Sheelagh Treweek
> [mailto:sheelagh.treweek AT COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC DOT UK] wrote:
>
>
> 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 Internet-Mail
> > Date:    6/30/98 9:38 AM
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>