Re: Any Apple II mailing lists?

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On 25 Jul 1996, Jeffrey Robertson wrote:

> 
> Personally, I hate lists compared to USENET.  Threading is invaluable
> to me, given the volume of material.  Threading also makes it
> easy to avoid the flame wars and Stroker Ace postings.  USENET
> allows for killfiles.  USENET makes it easy to drop in and out
> of the group as time permits.

We aren't considering switching all of USENET to a mailing list. ;-)
In fact, the mailing list idea isn't even meant to replace csa2.
The mailing list idea is meant to be a controllable forum for 
discussion of apple 2 topics which doesn't have to go up for a
vote like a new moderated csa2 would require. IMO it would not
have that much traffic -- csa2 traffic isn't that heavy now and
a mailing list would have probably less since not all csa2
participants would probably join the list.

As for following a thread, many mail programs can organize
mailing list responses in a logical order. I agree that it
wouldn't be as nice as a newreader though.

> 
> Please, please, don't everyone abandon csa2 for a mailing list.
> I'd reluctantly have to quit reading.

csa2 wouldn't be "abandoned". I'm fed up with the current state
of affairs like many others but I just ignore any posts which
have Subjects and/or Authors which I don't think are a2 related.
> 

> Why abandon csa2?

We wouldn't be -- the mailing list is just an idea to help
those of us who want to continue exchanging apple 2 ideas without
all the extra baggage which is currently redefining csa2!

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz