What is happening with a digest version of this? That would
be another alternative. The digest readers would only see one
or a couple of summaries per day, and the ones that want their
stuff immediatly could still get up to the minute mail. There are
alternatives.
Question: In the last 12 hours, how much of the discussion is
for making a newsgroup and how much is for actually discussing
the topics?
Mary
> From: NetSurfer <jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu>
> On Thu, 16 Jun 1994, Ian Hoenisch N29655 wrote:
>
> > Greg Alt writes:
> > > I think this list has too much traffic to still be just a mailing list.
> > > In the past couple of hours, I have received over 10 new messages.
> > > How about if we create alt.hypertext.vrml or something like that?
> > > And maybe the list can be kept as a gateway to the newsgroup for those
> > > that don't have access to the newsgroup?
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > Greg
> >
> > I also agree. I like reading and replying to the list, but I can't
> > afford to be interrupted every 30 min by a new mail message. I would
> > much rather read the news 2 or 3 times a day. If this is possible, I
> > think we should do it.
> >
> > Jan
>
>
> Then why not just read your mail 2 or 3 times a day?
>