Transit Mail List already exists in News Groups

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> 	Why create yet another mail-list for general transit talk?  Why not use
> something that already exists, like MTUT  --
> 
> 	news::misc.transport.urban-transit.
> 
> 	Here you can read only those subjects for which you have a personal
> interest and reply by posting.  It doesn't clutter the mail box and
> since the messages are usually resident for several weeks, it is not
> necessary to check every day.  This is much like the trolleycar junction
> which Fred, John, Charlie, and Ken have used  --  but which is now
> closed down!!  Seems someone abused the system - someone was posting
> under pseudonym as a rabble rouser and then answered his own posts!

I gave up on m.y.u-t long ago because of a "rabble-rouser" named "Big
Don".

And here I go off on a tangent again.

But a newsgroup is not always a 1:1 substitute for a mailing list.

Incidentally, I picked up a 1951 PRR Pittsburgh Division track chart. The
reason this is relevant is that some, but not all, of the places the West
Penn crossed over or under it was marked as such. For instance, Ligonier
St. in Latrobe, the main line crossed a bridge over the West Penn track
going up toward Rolling Rock, and that's marked. And there are other
places marked. But there are other places where it's not marked, and I
know there was a crossing either over or under.

-D