Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> writes: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod wrote: > ># I personally think this would be best as a Usenet. ># Newsgroups are great and I'm sure there would be no ># problem with people using Outlook, Forte, Nutscrape or ># anyone else's favorite NNTP. > > This list is moderated. Newsgroups are open to anyone and > can get a heavy load of spammers and trolls. I've been > using newsgroups since the Internet was first DARPANet > (early eighties), and I *really* value the civility and, > let me say, "trashlessness" of this list. The moderation of this list is very loose though. Has any post ever been censored? I am another who prefers USENET to email, and I've been looking at GMANE ( http://www.gmane.org/ ) which is a non-propogating newsserver gateway for mailing lists. Note that this simply allows people to use the list through a newsreader; it wouldn't affect people who still want to use email. Not sure if you'd get spam and trolls; I imagine most of the miscreants don't know of its existence, and it appears you have to register to access each list. Could the Powers That Be take a look at it? --KG