Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 1995/07

From: "Robert E. Winston" <rwinston@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: wais
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:03:10 -0400

At 7:48 PM 7/11/95, Jim Fay wrote:
> just started using wais client. seems that newsgroups can be searched
> with this. If then, klarinet was cross posted to rec.music.clarinet
> (or whatever), the fabulous resources of klarinet mail could be searched.

While it is possible to gateway a mail list to a Usenet newsgroup, there are
many disadvantages.

One is that being gatewayed to a newsgroup allows anyone to jump into the
discussion. I don't mean that Klarinet should be a private club, but just the
fact that you have to subscribe and have your mailbox filled up tends to keep
out people who don't have some serious interest in the group and aren't willing
to make a commitment to at least delete all the mail from their mailboxes.

Also as a newsgroup, there would be no way to stop the inevitable postings from
folks like the historical revisionists who don't mind sending out 100k
treatises explaining how the 6 million Jews in pre-war Europe where really
taken away by flying saucers to another planet.

Although it's probably never been necessary, the Listserv moderators can filter
out disruptive postings from nazis, MAKE MONEY FAST schemers, and the hordes of
barbarian trombonists just waiting out there in cyberspace for an innocent
Listserv list to loot, plunder and pillage.

AND, it is possible to search the Klarinet Listserv.

To do your first search and to get more info on searching Klarinet, send mail
to:

LISTSERV%vccscent.bitnet@-----.edu
^^^^^^^^

Copy and paste this database search in the message area:

//
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES
//RULES DD *
SEARCH propeller beanie IN KLARINET since JAN
PRINT ALL OF
/*

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