Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Archive question

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

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On 12/17/2002 1:06 PM, "Greg Dunn" <MyLists [at] gregdunn.com> wrote:

> With newsgroups, only message headers get downloaded (by default): the
> body of a message doesn't get downloaded until you select it for
> reading. This greatly reduces the quantity of material that has to be
> downloaded - very important if you participate in a lot of groups.

I think this is why people like to read YahooGroups on the web. They go to
the site and review the message headers (and who sent them) and only read
the messages they want to read. There is no downloading (except for the web
page.

I'm one of the people who just never learned what a newsgroup was. If the
group has too many messages, I just read on the web when I'm interested.

One group of discussers I belong to has found a good method of reducing
traffic. They have a basic identifier for the subject then form sublists
around that. Some people subscribe to all the lists and some just to
sublists. There no double posting. In cohousing it would go like this --
using coho as the shortened group name

Coho
Coho-Recipes
Coho-GreenBuilding
Coho-Homeschooling
Coho-LegalFinancial
Coho-Professionals
Etc.

That allows general discussion to go on while some people can just check in
on the subject they want to read about. If you care about all of them, you
join all the lists. When a subject is being discussed on one of the lists
that people on another list might want to know about, they let others know
-- "GreenBuilding is discussing that topic now," or "Homeschooling just
found out about ... and is discussing it."

Another advantage to YahooGroups that I just thought if is that if a member
is having difficulty, there are many people on the list who can explain
things to them -- not just the one (tired) list manager.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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