>Newsgroups might be too technical to engage in for newcomers,
>especially if they're already *very* busy trying to make this new
>software they've downloaded (Wine) work and everything's failing right
>and left around their ears with odd 'FontForge' messages,
>seh_exception overflows and what not.
>
>> Costs (worse first in my own opinion):
>> - Convince existing users to configure their newsreader.
>
>I think the above point is enough to be a showstopper for the
>newsgroup approach.
>
Well, you may think that, but really, it's not. They had to configure
their mail client for email, and since most (if not all) mail clients
still used double as a news reader, it shouldn't be too much of a
hassle... [...]
Segin is right saying it's not much harder to configure a newsgroup than it is to configure regular mail.
When I started using the net in 1998 or so, I really didn't like newsgroups. I stayed away from them for a very long time, until I came across Google Groups. Google taps so well into newsgroups that now I think all mailing lists of the world should be turned into a newsgroup :-)
(Note I keep advocating this suggestion because I'm quite convinced of its advantage but I'm not making that personal a personal matter at all.)
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