On Sun, 10 Apr 1994 13:21:18 EDT Robert Withers said: >On Sun, 10 Apr 1994 11:47:42 CDT Jeremy Butler said: >>Thus, you would have the option of (1) receiving each SCREEN-L message >>via e-mail (as the system works right now) or (2) browsing through SCREEN-L >>messages (and optionally posting replies) on Usenet. >> > Jeremy, if you don't mind clarifying your clarification, does the above >mean that the usenet conference would be a kind of "read-only" spinoff of >Screen-L, and that usenet readers could post to the usenet conference, but >these posts would not be forwarded to the Screen-L list via e-mail? Yeah, Robert, it could be done this way. The SCREEN-L-Usenet gateway could be made "uni-directional": SCREEN-L to Usenet, but not Usenet to SCREEN-L. Or, it could be bi-directional: SCREEN-L to Usenet *and* Usenet to SCREEN-L. It's our choice...if we choose to make the connection at all. > Actually, don't many more people have access to e-mail, and therefore to >listserv lists, than to usenet? Yes, that's my impression. And I myself only recently found a way into Usenet that wasn't so cumbersome as to make it use*less*. Let me stress once again: even if we do open this gateway, SCREEN-L would continue to be available through e-mail as it currently is. Indeed, that would continue to be the *main* was SCREEN-L operates. ---------- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. --Rev. Martin Luther King Letter from the Birmingham jail ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |