dong@walsh.harvard.edu (Rui-Tao Dong) (09/22/89)
I really like the idea. When I first started to read news a few monthes back, the first news groups I tried to find is something like rec.swl or rec.short-wave. I couldn't believe that there was none. The closest thing I could find was rec.radio-ham. Recently, there is a mailing list called SWL-L, which is a fine idea. But, I sometime hesitate to use it, knowing that the message I send will flood more than 100 mail boxes (200?). Also, I don't think that it got enough publicity. I have been a shortwave listener since I was a teenage. I didn't know the term swl until I found a copy of World Radio & TV handbook in the library by accident. ( It was cited in consumer report for reviewing short wave receivers.) I think that there are a lot of SWL like me out there. I think that Rec.short-wave is a great name. I think that most BC band, VHF, TV DXers and scanner owners will have the interests to see what the news groups is about and will find that it is also for them.
tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (09/23/89)
In <2685@husc6.harvard.edu> dong@walsh.harvard.edu (Rui-Tao Dong) writes:
Rui-Tao> Recently, there is a mailing list called SWL-L, which is a
Rui-Tao> fine idea. But, I sometime hesitate to use it, knowing that
Rui-Tao> the message I send will flood more than 100 mail boxes
Rui-Tao> (200?). Also, I don't think that it got enough publicity.
This I just do not comprehend. Do many people avoid sending to a
mailing list because they don't want to "flood" a couple of hundred
mailboxes of people who have explicitly asked to get the list? This
is somehow much worse in their eyes then sending to a newsgroup which
appears on thousands of machines?
Yes, I know mailing lists and newsgroups have many differences and
that even I prefer to read a newsgroup rather than a mailing list. I
just don't understand the above statement; the point that was
addressed (flooding a lot of places with the message) seems to be
quite similar between both environments.
Dave
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