At 08:32 AM 4/11/98 PDT, you wrote:
>Wait a second, ARE there private newsgroups on this topic? I thought
>it was just an idea everyone proposed but never did...
Not that I know of. If there are, they're not letting me in. (A good idea
anyway, I suppose.)
>>It has. It comes up every now and then on every mailing list. What
>>usually happens is that those who want a newsgroup go off a create a
>>newsgroup, and the ones who can't access or don't like newsgroups stick
I was speaking of mailing lists in general. As in the Land Rover list,
which after many such suggestions finally split into Series and Coil Sprung
lists, and now also has a newsgroup.
Sometimes it goes the other way; I suspect rec.equestrian was around long
before the dressage list.
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Received on Tue Apr 14 1998 - 00:07:01 BST