Newsgroups: Awesome for Outlook users, instead of Digests

by Glen on 2003-03-08 17:12:39

Please have a look at the new “Newsgroup” column on the Email Groups list at
/groups.shtml

Open groups have a NEWS link that will cause Explorer to open Outlook and let
people QUICKLY participate in the Email Group without receiving anything in
email. To participate, they just need to be subscribed to the ALLOW list of
your group, labeled as Web/NOMAIL on that web page.

The only drawback I know of with the newsgroup method, is that the messages
are only updated once a day, just after midnight. However, this does beat
digest mode, which is sent out at 5am. So even this is better than digests.