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I've been asked to re-examine the need for/usefulness of gatewaying
the WX-TALK, WX-CHASE, and SKYWARN groups to the NetNews community.
I established these links a number of years ago as a convenience for
users who expressed a desire to read the groups via NetNews rather
than via e-mail.

There have been a number of problems with the gateway over the past
few years resulting in mail not being forwarded from LISTSERV to the
NetNews groups.  Further, people sending mail to the NetNews groups
often get confused when their mail bounces  --since bit.listserv.wx-*****
were set up as moderated news groups (requiring the posting user to
actually be subscribed to the original LISTSERV discussion group).
In a message I received today, a subscriber expressed concern about
people being to easily skim e-mail addresses from the NewNews lists
and use them to send spam mail.  This is a valid concern, as I receive
unsolicited (often completely stupid) e-mail all the time.

I propose discontinuing the NetNews gateways and making the WX-*****
lists e-mail only.  Before I take such a measure I want to solicit
comments.  I am not sending this message to the SKYWARN list as the
number of messages posted there are insignificant.

Feel free to post your comments to WX-TALK or WX-CHASE (not both lists)
or send them directly to me at chris@siu.edu.  NetNews is a nice system
but gatewaying is a real hassle for me and I'd just assume make my life
more simple.

..Chris..
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