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From: Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
Date: 02 Jul 1997 01:53:42 +0200
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>>>>> "repayne" == repayne  <repayne@jeeves.net> writes:
    >> Is there such a thing as a password-protected newsgroup?

    repayne> Not in an across-the-net way.

    repayne> I guess I haven't seen the arguments against it before, but what is the
    repayne> argument against something like a hypermail archive of the mailing list
    repayne> that is password locked via the beta username/password?  That would seem to
    repayne> be the most efficient way, if searchable, to approach this problem.

Hello `Repayne'(?)

Your mail indicates you're using

X-Mailer: Jeeves by AetherWorks, version Apr 25 1997

which I'm not familiar with. From using both `hypermail' and `Gnus' I
can say that `hypermail' just "does not wing it" by comparison. (Also, 
it serves a quite different purpose.)

Some deciding factors could be:

Hypermail is static: Once archived with certain configuration options
a hypermail archive is immutable (sparing the option to re-create it
from the original mailbox with different configuration settings).

Gnus can hide articles and has a concept of scoring articles. Sorting
is more general than just sorting by `Author', `Date', `Subject', and
`Thread'. You can tick articles for easy reference, etc..

Hypermail cannot handle MIME articles.

Hypermail archives cannot easily be converted to other formats.

Gnus supports so-called mail backends which allow you to convert
mails and news artices (or respool) between them.

Best regards,

Adrian

