goutal (10/23/82)
I vote to keep net.sf-lovers. I dunno where things are hung up, but I havne't gotten a copy of SF-LOVERS DIGEST (as it is known in ARPA-land) in quite a while. I find reading an entire digest at a time quite a bear. It's nice to be able to read the stuff one article at a time, and reply or forward or save on an article-by-article basis. The main advantage to the digest format is that it is (occasionally) digested; that is, multiple replies get glommed into one and posted by the moderator. We see this occasionally in the newsgroups, on an ad-hoc basis. Having a moderator also helps when a discussion has gone on too long, or has diverged too much from the main course of the newsgroup/digest. I would say: keep them both, and keep forwarding stuff net... into fa..., and maybe back, if possible.