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Date: | Fri, 8 Apr 1994 17:37:14 CST |
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I've been thinking about opening a gateway between SCREEN-L and
Netnews.
Netnews is a bulletin board system in which articles on a variety of
topics are arranged in "newsgroups" and stored in a shared location
from which individual users can read them. These newsgroups can be
shared with other sites to form a world-wide bulletin board system
called Usenet.
If we were to connect SCREEN-L with Netnews it would mean that SCREEN-L
would appear on Usenet as a newsgroup named bit.listserv.screen-l.
(There are already newsgroups called bit.listserv.cinema-l and
bit.listserv.film-l.) Persons who have access to Usenet could then
subscribe to bit.listserv.screen-l and read all the messages posted on
SCREEN-L, without going through the normal LISTSERV subscription
process and having their name placed on the SCREEN-L subscription list.
Usenet patron could also post messages on SCREEN-L, by sending them
through this gateway.
Usenet is an immense, international bulletin board system. If we were
to gate into it it might increase the volume of messages on SCREEN-L,
but it would also extend SCREEN-L's reach to persons who might not
normally subscribe to a LISTSERV.
Anyway, it's an idea I'm toying with. Any thoughts pro or con?
--Jeremy
Jeremy Butler
SCREEN-L Coordinator
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