Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Young people peering
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 10:02:22 -0700
Organization: The Eyrie
Message-ID: <87bk58min5.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
References: <uvgh5a$1d8l$10@gallifrey.nk.ca> <uvmi06$13lru$1@dont-email.me>
	<uvmqk6$2cgt$8@gallifrey.nk.ca>
	<ddbb045d7ec304cb6220e93b1193901b@www.novabbs.org>
	<uvodbh$1jboj$1@dont-email.me> <uvoqg6$2og3$2@gallifrey.nk.ca>
	<be5bc4c206449a1c80ad035cbee5ab5d$1@sybershock.com>
	<6643880e$1$2422112$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Injection-Info: hope.eyrie.org;
	logging-data="7165"; mail-complaints-to="news@eyrie.org"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:wCCxS7pDnA19omivNH0UoBi7kSE=
Bytes: 2378
Lines: 26

Van Camp <van@ca.mp> writes:

> When I was working at different companies, I always wondered why all of
> them use mailing lists instead of local newsgroups. Local newsgroups
> just make much more sense, and make many things easier.

When I worked at Stanford, I set up fairly extensive local newsgroups to
capture all sorts of reports and user requests that started out as email.
I really liked that system, and some of my co-workers did as well, but I
think it mostly or entirely went away after I left.

Part of the problem these days is that news clients are a lot rarer than
mail clients and don't work in all the ways that people expect mail to
work (on the phone, in particular).  When I was at an email-heavy job (I'm
thankfully not any more), I will say that I found a good mobile email
client to be exceptionally good at its job, good enough that I never
bothered to set up Gnus for work email (which is what I usually use to let
me treat email as if it's Usenet).  Being able to triage email on the
train is incredibly useful and I'm dubious there's a mobile news client
with the same feature set (although I admit I have not done a ton of
research).

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

          Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
     <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.