Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Miscellaneous and References (11/12) Previous Document: Question 20.5: What are some good Jewish links on the WWW? Next Document: Question 20.7: What divrei Torah are posted to Usenet? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: At one time, SCJ and S.C.Israel were once available as mailing lists through Shamash. However, they were discontinued by the Shamash staff about 10 days before Pesach in 1996. The reason for doing this was the disproportionate system load. These two lists had a tiny fraction of all Shamash subscribers (perhaps 1% or less) but, because of the huge amount of traffic on the newsgroups, took as much as half of all mailing-list processing time. Because other mailing lists with content specific to Shamash were being delayed by the high load on the system, these two lists were removed. With the growth of web access, and the decline (somewhat) of Usenet, there has been less interest in gatewaying News to Mail. However, you can get access to the groups via the web. Simply go to one of the websites that provide public news access, such as Google Groups ([5]http://groups.google.com) or Mailandnews ([6]www.mailandnews.com). Note that you may not be able to post through these sites. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Miscellaneous and References (11/12) Previous Document: Question 20.5: What are some good Jewish links on the WWW? Next Document: Question 20.7: What divrei Torah are posted to Usenet? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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