Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00680)

I am sorry not to be able to quote from the earlier messages
unfortunately the digest is so large I cant reply with quoting! My
mailer cant handle the size of the digest any more as the average
size of each message has grown.

The suggested ideas for types of posting made by Daniel are a good
idea - I will put a message together when I have finished reading a
current series of books re the initiate. Let's hope others have ideas
sparked by this posting - Thank you Daniel.

MKR suggests using the delete key - this to me is an unfortunate
compromise which I hope we all dont have to use on a regular basis.
It is a poor example of Brotherhood if we have to use this on a
regular basis.

I think Chuck suggested a newsgroup - I am wondering what benefits
can be found in this form of Internet communiation compared to
mailing lists and what purpose is seen by having a newsgroup.

The delivery time for one thing is much slower with days being the
delivery time to many sites as newsgroups travel around the net being
passed on from server to server rather than as mailing lists does to
all from one server.

As a result there are many disadvantages in on going discussions in
a newsgroup forum. On the other hand it is a more public forum. It
could be used as a public forum for questions and answers maybe. What
other ideas are there for a TS newsgroup purpose?

Someone commented in what appeared to be frustration, that they had
only heard about this list via word of mouth. Personally I heard
about this mailing list from TSA in a newsletter some years ago, John
put an annoucement in. Finding that old issue was one of the first
things I did last July when finally joining the Internet. I believe
the same info was reprinted in the local Tin A magazine sometime ago,
I hear on the grapevine that an article about TI might be appearing
in T in A soon. I'll keep the list posted in Theos-News when I hear
more.
.

BFN
OOROO
Michelle

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