I for one vote AGAINST moving to a newsgroup.  I do most of my
     PICLIST'ing from the office, where I have email and web access, but no
     newsgroup access.  If you want a mail reader that handles threads, get
     Agent from Forte Inc.


     Just my 0.02 dollars worth - Martin R. Green


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Subject: News gateway, newsgroup?
Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
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Date:    5/1/98 10:59 AM


Hi all,

Is anybody besides me frustrated that this group communicates with a
mailing list and not a newsgroup?  It would be much easier to follow the
threads if this were a newsgroup.

I think that mailing lists can be "gatewayed" to newsgroups by people with
sufficiently large clues.  Has anybody done this on a publicly available
news server?  Does anybody know how?

Barring that, what about migrating the discussion to a new newsgroup.  Ideas:

alt.microcontrollers.pic

Following the pattern of alt.microcontrollers.8bit  (or maybe we should
start alt.microcontrollers.14bit :-).  The advantage of alt is that the
newsgroup will propagate to all servers that carry alt.* as soon as it is
created.

comp.sys.pic

Following the pattern of comp.sys.m6809, comp.sys.m68k, but, I think,
comp.* newsgroups must be voted on, which is a pain.

Is there any fundamental reason to stick with the mailing list format,
since this discussion is unmoderated?  Does anybody have email service but
no news service?  Does anybody see any advantage to the mailing list format
over usenet?

Bart

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