Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: atkins@hpindda.cup.hp.COM (Brian Atkins) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: New Group: comp.protocols.iso.x500?? Message-ID: <47920020@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Date: 17 Jan 91 01:48:47 GMT References: <47920017@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 46 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU x-attn: jns X-Previously-To: comp-protocols-iso-x400@rutgers.edu ReSent-From: Jerry Sweet ReSent-To: mhsnews@ICS.UCI.EDU I had asked that this discussion be moved to comp.protocols.iso so as not to burden the X.400 group. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be possible as this group is gatewayed to mailing lists which can't actively select which group to participate in. Thus, it seems necessary that we hold the discussion here (the majority of interest is coming from these mailing lists, it turns out). (For those of you on mailing lists who are now thoroughly confused, I am accessing this discussion via a bulletin board like system spanning a huge world wide population of machines on the Internet. The software system is commonly called "notes" or "news", depending on which user interface one is using. Thus the reason for some of my requests and many of your replies.) My question is: is it a good idea to form a comp.protocols.iso.x500 group, perhaps gatewaying to existing Directory/X.500 mailing lists in the same way as the ...x400 group currently is?? That is, is there enough purely X.500/Directory standards interest to warrant a dedicated notes/news group? Alternatives being, continue to use comp.protocols.iso.x400 and/or comp.protocols.iso itself. There are obvious drawbacks to these solutions w.r.t mailing list participants. It would seem that the answer is yes, given all the feed back I am getting in E-Mail (the mailing lists replies come to me, rather than the notes group). Does anyone know what mailing lists would be candidates for gateways? There seems to be some success in the X.400 group using this kind of notes/mailing list combination. (I want to stress that at no time would I advocate replacing a mailing list with this group, unless all members had access to the group and collectively decided amoung themselves to disband the mailing list.) Alas, my current work load does not allow me to assume moderatorship of such an X.500 notes group. If at all possible, I think this group should be left unmoderated (left without moderation? :-) anyway. Can someone who was involved in the setup of the comp.protocols.iso.x400 notes group/mailing list gateway drop me a line with clues on how to proceed? Thanks Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Atkins atkins@hpindqj.HP.COM (408) 447-2057 Hewlett Packard (43LS) 19420 Homestead Rd. Cupertino, CA 95014