Re: what about having a newsgroup (root.cern.ch for example?)

Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:37:33 +0100


Hi All,

I've just asked the CERN newsgroup responsible if we could
get a newsgroup (cern.root ?). I'll let you know once we get it going.

Cheers, Fons.

Martin Woudstra wrote:
>
> Hi Pasha,
>
> I agree with you. Seems like a very good proposal.
>
> My personal mailbox also gets flooded with root mails,
> sometimes making me feel like quitting the list.
> A Newsgroup would be much better.
>
> Regards,
> Martin Woudstra.
>
> Pasha Murat wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > "roottalking" activity on this mailing list reached a level where we could
> > think about chanding the form of our communication:
> >
> > it is not always convenient to receive by mail *all* the questions
> > and *all* the answers.
> >
> > trouble with cleaning up my mailbox - there are too many mail messages
> > coming to roottalk mailing list.
> > Personally I'd prefer to read most of them in "off-line" mode.
> >
> > Looking how people around solve similar problems I found that
> > establishing a newsgroup with all the correspondence
> >
> > Regards, Pasha

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