Roger Hockney on Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:38:23AM +0100:
> I agree with Tom, overloading my mail system with unwanted threads is
> more of a problem than spam ever has been.
This is what thread-aware news and mail clients are for. Use them.
Slrn, or mutt, respectively, are examples.
> It's obvious that some prefer mail-listings and others Usenet. Why
> cannot we have both? With input limited to those who have registered.
I'm not sure how you limit Usenet input? It's propogated to Usenet as a
whole, not through RH's servers.
> There used to be some very useful usenet groups e.g. "linux.redhat.misc"
> but I now find that I cannot post messages to these anymore?? Although
> it seems others can? Does anyone know why? I get error 441 no posting
> allowed to this newsgroup.
That's probably why; because they can't regulate, they just allow you to
read them
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Scott
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