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  • From: "Steve Diver" <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] alt.permaculture
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:54:57 -0600

> I noticed that the alt.permaculture newsgroup suffers from a scarcity of
> interesting posts and discussions, compared to this mailing list.
>
> The reason seems to be that whenever people with interesting contributions
> turn up on alt.permaculture, they are invited into this mailing list, where
> the interesting discussions are going on. As a result, alt.permaculture is
> depleted.


Newsgroups have their own niche. This is not a newsgroup.

If people start using the email list, it probably means the email
list has become the common medium for communication.

I find newsgroups hard to follow so I don't use them much.

Google did acquire the archives for newsgroups, so there is a lot in
there historically and the search engine can get you into the
ballpark where you can start fishing around, but it still seems
like a jumbled mess.

Secondly, by comparison, I am especially fond of the web archives for
email lists.

For example:
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/lists/


> On the other hand, I guess that a newsgroup like alt.permaculture is more
> widespread and would be more easily available to many people than this
> mailing list. It seems to me that the discussions going on here are of
> general interest.


Newsgroups are more widespread than email lists ?!?
That seems counter-logical to what really happens on the Internet.

My two cents,
Steve Diver

> The mailman software offers the possibility to connect a newsgroup to the
> mailing list. It is possible to configure the mailing list in a way that
> messages from it will automatically be posted into the newsgroup. It is
> possible to have it only in that direction. That would mean that suddenly
> all the good discussions of here would also be in the ng, while the flame
> wars and not so important chats of the ng would stay there. This could
> inject some new life into the newsgroup, raising the average interestingnes
> of discussions there drastically. It would make the discussions of this list
> more easily available to people (they would turn up in the google archive).
>
> Lawrence could do that within minutes. What do you all think?
> Andreas






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