Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00899
To: BEAM List beam@corp.sgi.com, James Niemasik jfn@best.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:49:37 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: comp.robotics.beam??
Yeh but hotmail accounts are slow to set up, and aren't exactly what I
consider 'enjoyable' to use. Also, what about if you don't check your
hotmail account for a week or perhpas three? You think everything is gonna
be hunky dorey? Not if you have four hundred messages sitting there. With
the List as an E-mail list, VOLUME is definity a consideration. The number
of messages sent can really cuase problems if you haven't chekced your mail
RELIGIOUSLY. And you have to wait to download ALL the messages just to get
the important ones for yourself. Also, if you set up a Hotmail account you
can't 'check out' whats been going on. You can only get mail after someone
sends somehting. IE you just can't set up an account and look at the
messages or the conversation. You have to wait for more messages to be sent.
And you don't have to automatically subscribe. You can just take a look at
messages too. There might be an option to send mail to your account with a
newsgroup also, But my votes with a newsgroup. Hey, progress is progress.
Dennison
>Well, just create a hotmail, juno, yahoo mail, etc. account and subscribe
that
>to the list. Now you can access it from anywhere. Also, people who notice a
>"comp.robotics.beam" that have never heard of BEAM probably aren't going to
>subscribe. If they have heard of it, then they probably learned about it
from a
>webpage, in which case they hopefully already got the mailing list
information.
>
>At school, I check the list every now and then from my hotmail account. If
the
>list turned into a newsgroup, I wouldn't be able to check from anywhere
except
>home, unless I had a computer with Communicator (not just navigator) or IE,
and
>then I'd have to set up my ng server and delete everything when I was done.
>Bottom line, I think the mailing list should stay a mailing list.
>
>dennison wrote:
>
>> Well, now that I think about it, A newsgroup DOES sound like a better
idea.
>> Why? Well I know mail IS free, but It only goes to a specific account.
With
>> a newsgroup you could pick it up virtually anywhere. This would alow more
>> people to 'stumble' across it also. I'm actually thinking it would be a
>> better idea.
>>
>> Dennison
>> >>
>> >> Just my option
>> >
>> >I agree. One big advantage to the BEAM email list is that it is FREE.
You
>> >don't even have to pay for the internet to be a part (ever hear of
Juno?).
>> >All you need is a computer and a modem, and considering what kind of
people
>> >BEAMers usually are, most of us already have at least that.
>> >
>> >Another big advantage to having ONE BEAM discussion medium (well,
besides
>> the
>> >heretics but that's another side of the coin) is that we are all
unified.
>> I'm
>> >having trouble putting this into words but I think you know what I mean.
>> >
>> >Just my spare change
>> >-TurtleTek
>> >
>> >"Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
>> >say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
>> >do not know it. This is knowledge."
>> > - K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
>
>--
>
>* James Niemasik
>* jfn@best.com
>* James' BEAM Robotics Page:
>* http://welcome.to/jamesbeam
>
>
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