Higher Fire the News group

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>>>>> "Marshall," == Marshall, Kenny <mars@JCN1.COM> writes:

    Marshall,> It would be so much better if Higher Fire was a news
    Marshall,> group. No more tons of e-mail to sort through. I know I
    Marshall,> could stop all the e-mail being sent to me but I don't
    Marshall,> have to go to Higher fire's archive to get what I want
    Marshall,> to read.  Most usually I just delete the mail that
    Marshall,> doesn't look interesting enough to read. (I just don't
    Marshall,> have enough time to read ALL of my Higher Fire mail.)
    Marshall,> But, then again, there wouldn't be a Higher fire
    Marshall,> archive to go back to if it were a news group. Just
    Marshall,> kicking around an idea. Who knows; maybe some one else
    Marshall,> will like the idea and posibly make a Higher Fire news
    Marshall,> group.

The trouble with a newsgroup is that it is much harder to moderate,
and usually degenerates into spam and anarchy.  Furthermore, Christian
newsgroups draw demonic spirits like flies.  The legalities of a
newsgroup make it a true public forum, and so free speech issues come
up that are easier to control with a private mailing list.  Also, with
only 200 or so subscribers, all that we could get is an alt.* group,
and these are the worst at drawing undesirables.  Also, many
corporations do not carry alt groups on their internal news servers.

Never worry about an archive.  We can still do that, and even if we
don't, DejaNews will index it and keep old postings for a while.

I just think we are in much better control with a mailing list.

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