Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00888
To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com, Pete McCarthy dilbertpete@hotmail.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:18:57 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: comp.robotics.beam??
Whoa, whoa, Several thousand? The last estimate I heard, (before the great
influx of BEAMERs after Robots rising) there were about three hundred
subscribed. Thousands? Not yet I don't think so.
Dennison
>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??
>
>
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>>From: "Feser, Jason"
>>To: "'Pete McCarthy'" , beam@corp.sgi.com
>>Subject: RE: comp.robotics.beam??
>>Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:37:22 -0800
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>>What are the benefits of having a newsgroup as opposed to a mailing
>list?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Pete McCarthy [mailto:dilbertpete@hotmail.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 4:17 PM
>>To: beam@corp.sgi.com
>>Subject: comp.robotics.beam??
>>
>>
>>Hello List,
>>
>>I was just wondering, how many people would like to have a newsgroup
>for
>>beam robotics? I am thinking of creating the newsgroup
>>comp.robotics.beam All I need is approval from the beamers out there.
>>
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