mailing list <-> newsgroup ?

Hi,
  How many people are subscribed to this list right now?  How many
people have read it before and dropped off only due to bandwidth
problems?  This list easily generates more traffic than any of
the newsgroups I read.  If the number of people on this list is
big why dont we set it up as a newsgroup (gatewayed to a list so
that people without newsfeeds can still read it) ?
Probably alot more people would read and participate.  Newsgroups
have the advantage that you can read them when you have the time
and let them go when you dont, without hassles of joining and
unjoining.  The audience would probably be bigger as as well.
Any counter arguments?

                            Tim N.

> Any counter arguments?

Newsgroups tend to have a lot smaller S/N ratio, in general, than
mailing lists.  Granted, the S/N ration of this list varies, but I
think its always been a lot better than many of the better newsgroups.
Making cypherpunks a newsgroup will just lower the S/N ratio without
helping increase anything else (other than readership).

If you think there is too much traffic, have the mail go to some other
account that you only log into when you have the time.  Hitting the
"d" key in mh-rmail isn't that much overhead! ;-)

Cypherpunks should stay in e-mail.

my $.02

-derek

THUS SPAKE Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>:
# The audience would probably be bigger as as well.

and quality would degrade.    News and mail may look the
same, but the social effects are quite different.

# Any counter arguments?

Yeah.  Gene Spafford often says that newsgroups are no way to get
things done.  However I think that mailing lists can be rather
effective.

I think you're saying that your problem is that your newsreader is a
lot better than your mailreader.  Perhaps you can fix the problem...

					strick