Theos-Talk Archives (October 1996 Message tl00223)

Hi

As one who has used maillists and newsgroups, let me add something that
most of know. Some newbees may not.

I find maillist responses are very quick.

Newsgroup message propogation takes time and sometimes I have seen
messages getting lost.

I personally prefer the former due to the quick response.

There is one advantange to the maillist we have here. Unless one is
subscribed, one cannot post. This prevents the numerous spam (broadcast)
messages cluttering the bandwidth and our time.

MK Ramadoss



On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, John E. Mead wrote:

> hi -
> as list owner and devote hermit,  I thought I should
> state a few things of general interest..
>
> 1. Maurice has signed off theos-l --- FYI
>
> 2. I had an interesting msg a few days ago....
> we sometimes are considered an *exclusive* group??!!  I think the
> idea is that being a discussion-list requires a subscribe, where
> the news-groups do not.  I was happy to find that Internet has been so
> successful.  It seems that *exclusive* is correlated with accessible.
> that actually seems understandable ...  However,  I must point out
> that we are not exclusive,  but the rather *excluded*.  after all.. who
> has seen any major "power in office" recognize our existence and
> participate? I wonder why,  but know better.  Truth is really higher
> than religion, and that includes Theosophical Societies.  Truth
> hurts...  but only when it not welcome.
>
> from the outcast realms of the virtual "white brotherhood" ....
>
> peace -
> john e. mead
> p.s. I may post something again, within the next six months. :-)
>
> --
> John E. Mead  <jem@vnet.net>
> Member of TSA, and Theosophy International (TI).
> Theos-L list owner; http://users.vnet.net/jem/theos-l.html
> (Physics is impossible without imaginary numbers;
> Mathematics is impossible without consciousness.)
>