P3D Re: Dejanews Communities

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In addition to dejanews, you might also look into egroups.com and
onelist.com.  They offer free mailing list services with subscriber's
option for digest, regular e-mail or Web access.  They can be moderated,
and I believe they DO promise address security.  They are also supported by
advertising, but, based on the list I started their, the advertising is
minimal and unobtrusive.

-pd


At 10:11 PM 12/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>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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