Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00895
To: rudnick1@cwix.com
From: Mark Dalton mwd@sgi.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:15:05 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: comp.robotics.beam??
Yes, I have been wanting to move it to a newsgroup for years, but
unfortunately I cannot get the phone company to get a decent connection
for my home server.
Actually people can get mail from _standard_ newsgroups (Usenet).
A more appropriate name would not be comp.* rather,
sci.robotics.beam
It is too bad the other robotics groups were missed named, just because
they commonly use CPUs, a good robot is much more than a computer.
(design, mechanics, and even non-cpu).
I will look into setting up the newsgroup. I will just need to find a
server that I can use.
Mark
>
> Hey, I reeaally like the newsgroup idea. I hate downloading a million
> messages a day (not too far from the truth). By the way, who DOESN'T have
> access to newsgroups?? For those who don't, is the some way of sending all
> messages sent to the newsgroup to those induviduals who cannot access it.
> But i thought the newsgroup would be a replacement anyway...
>
> What if all messages sent to the newsgroup would be CCed (past tense of
> carbon copy =)) to the list, or the other way around. That wouldn't be
> all that much trouble...just a few mouseclicks, and that way you could have
> your choice. I think that would be the best for everyone.
>
> What do y'all think?>
>
> Well, you can definitely count me in.
>
> CYA,
> Noam
>
> ----------
> > From: dennison
> > To: BEAM List ; Pete McCarthy
>
> > Subject: Re: comp.robotics.beam??
> > Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 9:18 PM
> >
> > 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??
> > >
> > >
> > >>From jfeser@EAHQ-Exchange.EA.com Tue Feb 23 16:43:04 1999
> > >>Received: from [159.153.88.2] by hotmail.com (1.1) with SMTP id
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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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