Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!GTRI01!DBUECHNE From: DBUECHNE@GTRI01.BITNET (Dave Buechner) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.policy-l Subject: Re: User interface for list postings Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 16:28:37 GMT Sender: Discussion about BITNET policies Reply-To: Discussion about BITNET policies Lines: 23 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 29 Jan 90 02:52:00 EDT from > >The future? >Listservs running with no modifications but ANU-NEWS (and similar >packages) would be a great improvment. Listservs customized to help >NEWS-like packages would be a very great improvement. Bitnet >switching to Usenet-style news and getting rid of Listserv is very >do-able. I appreciate the work that went into Listserv, but I think >the trend towards a News-orientented system would be a bit improvment >for users. Management isn't all that more difficult. > >-Tom I can see Bitnet switching to Usenet-style list reading where one copy of a note is sent to/stored on a system no matter how many users are signed on. I do not think that Usenet-style distribution is a good idea. It seems like distributing all lists to all systems is going to increase network traffic significantly. Some rambling thoughts...... Dave Buechner Lead IBM Systems Programmer Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA