P3D Dejanews Communities

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In looking at various ways to get a handle on the bandwidth
problem involved in p3d, one option is to set up a Dejanews
Community (ie, a Forum). This would involve a bit of a procedural
shift as you connect to it via a web browser (dunno if Lynx would
work) - one nice feature is that you can search all of the
past messages. One bad feature is that it's supported by
ad inclusion, plus there is no particular statement regarding
address privacy (plus any messages posted will turn up in
a Dejanews search - which is good in some respects, bad in
others). It *can* be moderated in order to keep spam under
control. The MAJOR advantage to this would be that 
presumably dejanews will never been down for an extended
period, so even if Calcite crashes for 90 days during the
summer, the list would not be affected.

I'd be interested in exchanging notes with anyone using 
a DJN community regularly, or even better a moderator.

(some back of the envelope calculations based on an average
of 2 - 25k digest mailings per day yield a network bandwidth
requirement of about 1.5GB per month outgoing ...)

THANKS!

--Bob Wier

wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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