Create Internet news group?

GRASS GRASS user
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Paul Williams (paul@lily.aerc.colostate.edu) writes on 13 Nov 92

I was thinking of perhaps a simpler arrangement where people who
wished to
post a message would still send to grassp-list via e-mail and the
email
would still be sent to all subscribers but an additional article
could
be posted to Internet news groups such as comp.gis.grassp

and comp.gis.grassu or perhaps combine everything into one group
comp.gis.grass. It might be best if the news group were moderated,
then articles could not be posted directly to that news group by
the
general user comunity, only the moderator.

As it stands now, one must be aware of the grass mailing lists
before you can subscribe.

Network news would have the addditional advantage of advertising
itself to the general user community.

I've been using Internet news (usenet) recently through a newsreader
on the Next computer called Newsgrazer. It really is easier to read
and reply through than this arrangement. It would also help clean up
my email back to just personal messages.

I like your suggested way of doing this too. A moderator who relays
mail from the grasshopper make sense. Certainly the moderator could
filter out the subscribe/unsubscribe messages and other such garbage.
Retaining the grasshopper guarentees that people who can't get on
usenet can still participate.

I vote for combining grassu and grassp when transferring to usenet
(ie. comp.gis.grass). I suggested this for the grasshopper in a
previous mailing and was shot down. (I still don't see any
signifigant difference in the mail in grassp and grassu.) However,
the grassp and grassu designators (ie. grassp-list@max.cecer.army.mil
and grassu-list@max.cecer.army.mil) would have to be retained in the
relayed mail for sending replies back to the grasshopper from usenet.
Now that I've voted for combining... Come to think of it the way my
NewsReader works having a comp.gis.grassu and a comp.gis.grassp
really wouldn't be a big deal at all.

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu

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[I was tempted to start CC'ing this to comp-infosystems-gis@cs.utexas.edu]

Greg Colello (gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU) writes on 13 Nov 92

I like your suggested way of doing this too. A moderator who relays
mail from the grasshopper make sense. Certainly the moderator could

I too like this idea, but what about filtering posts TO the
proposed group? Automatically to grassu?

filter out the subscribe/unsubscribe messages and other such garbage.
Retaining the grasshopper guarentees that people who can't get on
usenet can still participate.

Are you volunteering? :slight_smile:

I vote for combining grassu and grassp when transferring to usenet
(ie. comp.gis.grass). I suggested this for the grasshopper in a

Try comp.infosystems.gis.grass. The comp.gis idea was shot down
when GIS-L made the transition. Besides, there's so much trash
on that newsgroup that a split would be good:
c.i.g.grass
c.i.g.arcinfo
c.i.g.data

--Darrell McCauley