Re: ATM trial postings of atm-digest to s.a.a.

["Andy Steere" <andy@www.system.missouri.edu>]

On Sat, 17 May 1997, Buck Childers wrote:

> How about storing the digest on a web or ftp area.  

All the information that is contained in the digest is already being
stored in the archives.  The digest is just a group of ATM list
messages... instead of individual messages.  The only advantage to the
digest is that the archive is only updated once a month.

I might be willing to store, and make available on the web, the current
month's worth of digest.  How often do they come out??  I'll consider this
some more.  Could someone forward a copy of a recent digest to me?

> The posting to s.a.a could be trimmed to something like a monthly
> reminder (a la a faq pointer posting).

This is my recommendation... even if we can't put the digest on the web. 
Best of both worlds... people know about the ATM list (in both digest and
non-digest forms) and the archives... plus you don't make anyone mad by
sending a 50K+ posting to them.  You might want to send the reminder more
than once a month, as most systems age that newsgroup faster than that. 
We don't want anyone to miss it (except maybe "Nancy" :-). 

> http://www.system.missouri.edu/atm/  (a great resource!) 

Thanks for the plug and the compliment!

Clear Skies!

Andy Steere - ATM Archive administrator - andy@www.system.missouri.edu
http://www.system.missouri.edu/atm/    <- the ATM list archives
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