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In article <wep6j2K0M2YtRoD48X@thumper.bellcore.com> nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) writes:
>From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
>Subject: Rearranging lists & newsgroups
>Date: 8 Oct 92 17:11:30 GMT
>Attention, readers of the "comp.mail.multimedia" newsgroup and the
>"mmm-people" internet mailing list:
>
>As many of you know, the recent publication of MIME, the proposed
>standard for multimedia Internet mail, has generated a great deal of
>renewed interest in multimedia mail in general.  Earlier today, I
>proposed to readers of the MIME mailing list and the mailing list for
>metamail (my public-domain MIME implementation) that we look into
>creating new newsgroups for discussions of MIME and metamail.
>
>Several people have suggested, in response, that the existing
>comp.mail.multimedia newsgroup and mmm-people mailing list (which are
>mutually gatewayed) are suitable for this purpose.  What I would like to
>know is this:  do you think it would be reasonable to have general
>discussions about MIME on mmm-people and comp.mail.multimedia?   Or
>would it be better to have aseparate newsgroup for this purpose?  How
>about specific MIME implementations such as metamail?  
>
>For information purposes, info-metamail routinely carries one or two
>dozen messages a week at this point.  The MIME dicussion list, ietf-822,
>carries a much more variable amount of traffic, depending on the current
>state of the standards process, but not all of this discussion would be
>appropriate to move to mmm-people/comp.mail.multimedia anyway.  In
>particular, the mail oriented to new drafts of the MIME standard would
>undoubtedly stay on ietf-822, while general "how does MIME do X?"
>discussion would probably migrate to the newsgroup.
>
>What is being suggested, at bottom, is a renewed and expanded charter
>for this longstanding low-volume newsgroup.  Alternately, we could
>create new subgroups such as "comp.mail.multimedia.mime" and
>"comp.mail.multimedia.metamail", thus not significantly increasing the
>traffic on the base newsgroup.  A hybrid strategy would be to start out
>by just routing all such traffic to comp.mail.multimedia, and later
>deciding if new groups are needed.
>
>For myself, I have no strong opinions about which is the right solution;
>I'm just trying to reduce the burden that is involved in administering
>info-metamail, which has gotten to be a fairly large mailing list with
>all the normal pains involved in such lists.  A newsgroup seems like a
>reasonable idea, but I don't much care whether we create a new one or
>re-use an old one.
>
>I suspect that it is better to debate this question publicly on the
>list/newsgroup rather than via private mail to me, since I'm trying to
>open a public discussion here rather than simply get person-to-person
>advice.
>
>Thanks for your patience & advice.  -- Nathaniel