> I am not looking forward to the day when I have to wade through multiple > postings to sci.agriculture.beekeeping to find what little educating > information may be contained therein. EVERYONE in cyberspace will have > instant access! Postings WILL range from very knowledgeable posts, to > "bees attacking my hotdogs". Serious netters will find that the > increased "accessibility" will generate a great deal of non-informative > chatter. Remember, the proposal is NOT to replace or get rid of BEE-L. You can continue to read BEE-L and you can choose to read or ignore the newsgroup if it gets created. The newsgroup is likely to _increase_ the quality of BEE-L, since troublemakers are likely to cause trouble in the newsgroup and not here. But troublemakers aren't likely to be a problem (there may be some noise at first only because it's a new group - *most* new groups get noise at first and then settle down as people who aren't truely interested drop out) Also, should we so choose, we can redirect BEE-L to "A Discussion of Bee Biology" like the charter reads, and redirect beekeeping questions to the group. If we choose. And certainly if a truely good post shows up only in the newsgroup, someone will probably repost it to BEE-L so everyone sees it. > There is a LISTSERV option individual subscribers can set to have a > daily digest of the BEE-L sent rather than individual postings. > TELL LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1 SET BEE-L DIGEST > or send mail to LISTSERV@ALBNYVM1 with one line saying > SET BEE-L DIGEST > Setting this option does wonders for relieving cluttered mailboxes. That only decreases the number of messages. The total number of kilobytes/day is unchanged, and you still have to wade through all the messages to find ones of interest. > > "And "Malibu Skipper" et.al. maybe will periodically disrupt *them* > > and not the bee list! > > I suspect that the "Malibu Skipper's" of the networld will disrupt > sci.ag.beekeeping AND BEE-L rather than keeping the mischief to USENET. Only the truely dedicated troublemakers will do so. Most will stop at the newsgroup. > And by virtue of it's location, sci.ag.beekeeping will inherently have > MORE Malibu Skippers, and if they don't blat to BEE-L directly, I > suspect that any ruckus on sci.ag.beekeeping will spill over to BEE-L. But in a newsgroup you can killfile them. In fact, once a "Malibu Skipper" shows up, I can set things up so I NEVER see any post from them ever again, and junk replies to those posts too. -Mike