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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating ne
Message-ID: <9300044@uokvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 10:12:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 10:12:00 1986
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/* Written  2:46 pm  Mar  6, 1986 by lauren@vortex.UUCP in net.news.group */
It would appear to me that the number of users on a site is largely
irrelevant to the issue of "voting."

The issue isn't really whether or not lots of people want to discuss 
a given topic.  The issue is whether or not it makes sense to use
newsgroups to handle the traffic involved in discussing such a topic.
/* End of text from net.news.group */

Yes, that is *very* true, BUT--a thing I think causes people to want news-
groups instead of mailing lists is that there's no *conceptual* difference
between topics-that-should-be-sent-as-mailing-lists and topics-that-should-
be-sent-as-newsgroups but there's a big *interface* difference between the
two.  Mailing-list vs. newsgroup/notesfile SHOULD BE a trivium of implemen-
tation; the INTERFACE should be identical.  There should be a way to "create"
net.foam so that people can still use their favorite netnews-reader to read
it and post to it, while underneath it gets sent in whatever way the net or
the net.gods decide is the most reasonable.  If the amount of traffic changes,
the method of transport should be able to change without ANY of the users
noticing ANY difference.

						James Jones