RE: Looking for guinea pigs

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of cathy carpenter
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:53 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for guinea pigs
> 
> I tried to sign up, and my request was returned with the following
> message: The following addresses   had permanent fatal errors --
> <majordomo@hortnet> (reason: 550 Host unknown)
> Cathy
> On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 01:51 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey
wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >    I'm pretty close to unveiling a new feature of hort.net and am
> >    looking for guinea pigs.
> >
> >    As part of an effort to make the hort.net mailing lists more
> >    cohesive and easier to navigate, I've created a new interface
> >    to the various lists.  Basically, this means that you can read
> >    your gardenchat, perennials, ferns (and the list of hort.net
> >    lists goes on) mail from a news reader instead of your email
> >    program.
> >
> >    There are many benefits to this scheme:
> >
> >       1.  You can easily view messages in any format: threaded,
> >           by date, author, etc.
> >
> >       2.  You only view the subjects of the messages, then click
> >           on the ones that you want to view.  It saves us both
> >           bandwidth and download time.
> >
> >       3.  The news archive is kept indefinitely, so you don't have
to
> >           worry about missing messages if you're out of town or have
> >           a small mailbox that might bounce if you're over quota
> >
> >       4.  Since people view messages when they want to instead of
> >           having us send them all out at once, it distributes our
> >           bandwidth usage more evenly (which is a good thing).  It
> >           saves hort.net money (we pay much more than you probably
> >           think for our bandwidth right now)
> >
> >    Anyhow, I'm looking for people who would be willing to try this.
> >    Before I start giving access to people I'd like to have some
> >    discussions about the way that I'm setting things up.  I have
> >    some ideas, but I want to make sure that they're all OK with
everyone
> >    before I program it all in.
> >
> >    OK, the meat of this message...  If you're interested in being a
beta
> >    tester and/or being involved in the decision-making process, send
> >    an email to
> >
> >       majordomo@hort.net
> >
> >    with the body of your message containing the single line
> >
> >       subscribe admin-nntp
> >
> >    You'll get a confirmation message back; just reply to it and
you'll
> >    be signed up!  We'll use that list to talk about stuff.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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