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Re: Netvision NNTP Server



> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> > Aren't text-mode-no-fancy-multimedia-old-fashioned-news out of fashion?
> > Just curious how many people still use news these days.
> 
> what do you care about "fasion"? they are still a very good option to
> discuss very specific issues with people. why else would dejanews be such
> a great service, if it wasn't for the wealth of info available in these
> news groups?
> 
> i know that whenever i need to solve a technical problem, i go to dejanews
> and search there for answers. and it hardly ever fails. in fact, a large
> number of the questions that peopel ask here (linux-il) could have been
> avoided, if these people bothered searching dejanews, instead of being
> lazy and wasting bandwidth by asking these questins over and over again
> here.
> 
> btw, dejanews was bought by google lately, so its URL now ges you to
> groups.google.com, and the search interface changed (again).
> 
> --
> guy
> 


Coming to think about it, haven't you just described some major problems of 
the news service?
1) People are using http combined with search utilities to look on-line in the 
huge bank of information that was gathered by news messages, thus enabling 
their ISPs not carry the large BW that is needed for a proper news service.
2) One can use the information without actively and continually follow news 
groups.
3) No central managing for a news group, which makes it pretty hard to enforce 
some standards on its content.

Doesn't a mailing list solve those problems, at least partially?


> "For world domination - press 1,
>  or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
> 

-- 
	
	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>



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