I have no objections either way as I currently read and post to several
newsgroups, however...  for those that either don't currently read
usenet news, or don't post much, there is currently a rapidly growing
and rather annoying problem.  There are net-marketting individuals that
download usenet headers and use the e-mail addresses from that to send
out their garbage.  I currently recieve 10-15 UCE's (Unsolicited
Commercial E-mails) a day, and it seems to be gradually getting worse.  If
you do make a newsgroup I would really recommend not gating the list to
it as the list insulates many from this spam.  Of course, if you are an
occasional reader of the list the volume is rather heavy and is almost
as good as a spam.

However, when was the last time you read about CD-R prices on the
piclist?  When was the last time someone tried to start a flamewar?

Roger