Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00886
To: "Pete McCarthy" dilbertpete@hotmail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Ian Bernstein ian@beam-online.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 99 19:24:06 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: comp.robotics.beam??
>Well, some benefits are:
>1. it won't clog up your e-mail address
>2. With over several thousand beamers out there, I feel that the mailing
>list is inadequate to serve everyone
>3. Beam will finally get a newsgroup of its own instead of having to
>filter through all of comp.robotics.misc posts for ones pertaining to
>beam
>
>Let me ask you something, what are the drawbacks of having this
>newsgroup??
Let me just add my .02 cents.
The mailing list has been around for like 4 years and has lots of
subscribers (like 400 or something) and I don't think everyone will just
switch over. I also don't think very many people (including me) have the
time and whatever to look at "both" the list and the newsgroup so I think
it will just die out.
Just my option
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Ian Bernstein "aka - Synet" The Master Builder
E-Mail - Ian@beam-online.com
BEAM Online - http://www.beam-online.com
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