Re: This mail group

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Hey Calum,

Don't get upset mate.

First, I am relaying my opinion, not picking a fight, secondly, this is
because of *experience* not just some head-in-the-dirt outlook.

I can remember when a USenet connection was first put in at Strathclyde
Uni,
I was there as a 2nd year, using the DEC VAX cluster on a VT210 terminal.

Usenet was great, but is now *absolute bollocks*. It's nothing more than a
global porn advert distribution network, with optional spam address
collection.

I recently used a new address in some of the groups I am active in. Now, tw
weeks on, I am getting ten t  twelve bits of crap a day, nearly three times
more than I get on my regular mail address.

There's a though for you: talking about a mirror between the list and
Usenet: you better strip out email addresses as you go, otherwise, you will
be signing up maillist users for usenet spam-by-the-bucket.

Remember when we hived off the MP3 list? any idea how many posts there were
there last month? try *four* How many Mp3 posts have there been in the main
group since then? darn site more than four...

Ian.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Calum Morrell" <calum@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] This mail group


> Can someone please reply with a 'that's cobblers mate' style response
> while I go and calm down ....
>
> Ian Lowe wrote:
>
> > Guys, a word of warning:
> >
> > I can predict quite confidently that this list would not survive
the
> > creation of an iRC Channel and Usenet group actively pushed as an
> > alternative.
> >
> > It is my opinion that we are at a level where the groups momentum
sustains
> > it through dry posting spells. at the moment we have a high
point.
> >
> > I am again convinced that the only reason the IRC Channel has not
already
> > done damage is because a *very* small number of people use it.
> >
> > I have seen this happen on a Bike mailing list I was on, where
the group
> > tried to hive OT posts off to a chat forum on a website. The
reuslt was
a
> > complete loss of traffic, and eventually almost everyone moved to
a
> > compleely new mailing list, set up to be "just like the
original".
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________
> > Automated Home UK
> > http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
> > ____________________________________
> >
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject t
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Calum Morrell
> The Morrell Group
> Tel : 0709 214 1538
> Fax : 0870 131 5408
>
> "For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we
on any
conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches,
nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which
no
honest man gives up but with life itself." From The Declaration of
Arbroath
1320.
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________
> Automated Home UK
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
> ____________________________________
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject t  http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>




____________________________________
Automated Home UK
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
____________________________________

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject t  http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/