On Sun, 10 Apr 1994 11:47:42 CDT Jeremy Butler said: >I should clarify: > >I don't mean to turn SCREEN-L solely into a Usenet newsgroup. What I'm >considering is a gateway between SCREEN-L and Usenet. Most SCREEN-L >subscribers would continue to receive SCREEN-L messages in the same way. >The only difference is that the messages sent out to SCREEN-L subscribers >would simultaneously be presented in a Usenet newsgroup. > >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? This might not be so bad. I think most responders here are concerned about seeing the Screen-L listserv list fill up with the kind of, um, searching for the right word -- inane blather, perhaps -- that usenet conferences can so easily degenerate into. As I understand it, the usenet conference would become a kind of "mirror" or advertisement for Screen-L. Which might have its own impact on the list. I wonder what impact that would be. I gather your interest and motivation in proposing this is to reach out and make the Screen-L list known to people with serious or professional interests around the world who may not know of it. I wonder if the periodic posting of an announcement about Screen-L on the usenet groups might not have this same effect. Actually, don't many more people have access to e-mail, and therefore to listserv lists, than to usenet? Best regards, Robert Withers