Summary-line: 22-Jan  n, wilcox@cis.ohio-state.  #Re: The disscusion for a permanant group
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Date:     Sun, 20 Jan 91 23:52:52 EST
From: Brinton Cooper <abc@BRL.MIL>
Organization:  BRL

The important issues concerning news group vs mail list include these:

	1. All sites to not receive UseNet news.  I don't think, for
example, it's particularly easy if a site is on Bitnet only.

	2. Some users, especially university undergraduates, face severe
retrictions on the amount of disk storage they may occupy.  If the
discussion becomes particularly active and the user's mailbox grows
large, the total disk usage may exceed quota and the user will be denied
access to the account.

One way to accommodate the largest group of people is to create a news
group that is "gatewayed" to an Internet mailing list.  Items posted
>from either side would automatically go to both.  A number of mail
lists, including info-apple@apple.com (comp.sys.apple2) and
risks@csl.sri.com (comp.risks) work this way.  One is moderated and one
is not.

The simplest way, since most of you probably met one another on sci.med,
is just to continue your discussions on sci.med and ignore the flames.
(Thin skin isn't part of the medical  problem, is it?)  This has the
advangtage of exposing your discussion to a much larger audience and
getting excellent input from a few, very knowledgable people from time
to time as well as attracting new voices from interested folks or folks
with similar problems.

_Brint