[Coco] News gateways

[John E. Malmberg]

tim lindner wrote:
> 
> But that was my point. The Powers That Be won't create
> comp.sys.tandy.coco until a need is shown.

Using news.gmane.org, the group gmane.comp.sys.coco is available, along 
with several other possible names.

> So until bit.listserve.coco is shut down,

All that needs to be shutdown is the gateway to the princeton.edu list 
or get it redirected to this list.

Except for maybe one or two newsgroup postings a year, all the junk is 
coming directly from the princeton.edu server.

Since all the people who are currently using bit.listserv.coco need to 
do is point their newsreaders at news.gmane.org in addition to their 
local news server.  Both Mozilla and Outlook can do this.

> _and_ the Color Computer
> traffic increases in comp.sys.tandy we won't get our own group.

I do not see what that has to do with it.  Getting the new group created 
is usually not the problem, it is getting all the news servers to carry 
it that can be a hassle.

Using the news.gmane.org server avoids all of this.

> I believe comp.sys.6809 would be the wrong group to target for
> expansion.

Not with out an invitation from an overwhelming majority of it's current 
users.

Now http://www.gmane.org/ has extended an open invitation for groups 
like this to use it for newsgroup gateways to their mailing lists.

I think that the gmane.org option makes sense.  It also may bring in 
more COCO users.

Apparently the mame / mess mailing list is available there as a 
newsgroup, just to give you the idea of what the neighborhood is like.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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