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In article <4deupc$d6k@t3.mscf.uky.edu>, abbott@news-host.ms.uky.edu (Joel Abbott) writes:
>
>hello.  i run several mailing lists which i would like to gateway
>to newsgroups.  one of the mailing lists has about 100 posts per
>day so i have made it a policy to only allow new subscribers to
>the digest version which only goes out once a day.  i had to make
>this decision because with nearly 2500 people on the list, if
>everyone were to receive each mailing as it was posted, my site
>would have to deal with alot of mail.  some people don't like the
>digest and would prefer to be able to browse through the individual
>messages instead of wading through the entire digest (they don't
>have undigestifying software).
>
>anyway, i would like to create 6 groups something like:
>
>	alt.mailing-list.hey-joe
>	alt.mailing-list.janes-addiction
>	alt.mailing-list.mazda-list
>	alt.mailing-list.tears4-fears
>	alt.mailing-list.u2-list
>	alt.mailing-list.weezer-rules
>
>i understand that there are other categories in which 5 of these
>[music-related] lists might better fit, but i thought a category
>specifically for gatewayed mailing lists might be ok?  perhaps
>
>	alt.mail-list-gw.hey-joe
>	alt.mail-list-gw.janes-addiction
>	alt.mail-list-gw.mazda-list
>	alt.mail-list-gw.tears4-fears
>	alt.mail-list-gw.u2-list
>	alt.mail-list-gw.weezer-rules
>
>would be better?  these lists are not listserv lists
>so using the bit.listserv.XXX didn't seem appropriate.
>what does everyone think?
>
I am cross-posting this to bit.admin so the administrator of that
hierarchy can comment on the use of the bit.* hierarchy.

My preference is that any gatewayed mailing lists to alt.* groups be
in the appropriate classification such as alt.music, as they will be
easier to find that way.


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