[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:04 -0600, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
> Would it help to use various newsgroups instead of one big mailing list?
> i.e., digium.asterisk.users.zap, agi, etc.?
> 
> I worked a lot in the MSFT newsgroups for a while, and splitting up the
> newsgroups seems to help, esp. when a single NG might be doing 1000+ posts a
> day. The MS newsgroups are unmoderated, and have rather high volumes (15K to
> 45K a day for just the public newsgroups).
> 
> It could also be argued that NNTP clients are a bit better for handling high
> volumes of posts, as most of them have tools to follow up/ignore/etc.
> whereas mail clients don't always. 

Then get a better mail client. 

Actually, nntp is a bad idea now days. NNTP is not as fast as a mailing
list unless you have it all hosted on a very small amount of NNTP
servers. Also a lot of ISPs are no longer supporting NNTP locally.
Comcast offers you a relatively small amount of transfer on a pay for
NNTP host. If you exceed the free amount, you either are cut off or you
have to pony up more cash. Not a good solution.

Also, just what I need, ANOTHER place to go or an app that has to be
running constantly to be kept up to date.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>