Re: netCDF newsgroup suggestion...

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: netCDF newsgroup suggestion...
• From: "Len Makin, CSIRO DIT Melbourne." <Len.Makin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 10:44:08 +1000

> 
> 
> >>> We could take a vote to see if most prefer a
> >>> newsgroup to a mail list.
> 
> Just a reminder that the original proposal was for a computer
> created digest, not a newsgroup.  The digest format, where a day's
> messages are bundled together and mailed out, works well for
> the Khouros newslist, and would satisify the objections of both sides
> here.
> 
> --Phil Austin
Here we don't get a Khoros digest - so maybe that's a local news/email
administrator's decision? But I like the Khoros method where there is a 
CHOICE - there is a newsgroup with the advantages of wider circulation 
of the issues, and there is a mailing list also, for those addicted to
spoonfeeding. I don't see why this dual system shouldn't work with 
netCDF too. Someone want to set up the newsgroup vote? Should we
be part of comp.databases hierarchy ( comp.databases.netCDF or
comp.databases.selfdescfiles ?) , part of sci hierarchy 
( sci.data.fileformats ?) or start a new branch of comp
(comp.files.selfdesc) ?

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