Re: Usenet newsgroup for Octave proposed

[Madhusudan Singh]

I think that having an Octave newsgroup would be a very good idea. Usenet 
tends to reduce the amount of bandwidth spent as one need download only 
messages that one is interested in, and the danger of exposing one's email 
address to spammers also goes down (can use spam.invalid domain names, etc.).

I get about 10-15 octave related emails a day, if not more. I am usually not 
interested in more than 75% of them. Utter waste of space, and time spent 
deleting them. As to archives, most newsgroups are archived, so that is not 
an advantage of mailing lists over newsgroups. If some people do not like the 
newsgroups for whatever reason, we can try to construct a mail to news 
gateway that can keep both current.