<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Newsgroups might be too technical to engage in for newcomers,<br> >especially if they're already *very* busy trying to make this new
<br> >software they've downloaded (Wine) work and everything's failing right<br> >and left around their ears with odd 'FontForge' messages,<br> >seh_exception overflows and what not.<br> ><br>>> Costs (worse first in my own opinion):
<br>>> - Convince existing users to configure their newsreader.<br> ><br> >I think the above point is enough to be a showstopper for the<br> >newsgroup approach.<br> ><br><br>Well, you may think that, but really, it's not. They had to configure
<br>their mail client for email, and since most (if not all) mail clients<br>still used double as a news reader, it shouldn't be too much of a<br>hassle... [...]</blockquote><div><br>Segin is right saying it's not much harder to configure a newsgroup than it is to configure regular mail.
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When I started using the net in 1998 or so, I really didn't like
newsgroups. I stayed away from them for a very long time, until I came
across Google Groups. Google taps so well into newsgroups that now I
think all mailing lists of the world should be turned into a newsgroup
:-)<br>
<br>(Note I keep advocating this suggestion because I'm quite convinced of its advantage but I'm not making that personal a personal matter at all.)</div></div>