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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to splitting the newsgroup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.205215.11607@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:52:15 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.192927.4438@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 37
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- tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes that splitting c.o.l would
- cut the Fidonet and Linux Digest mailing list people out in the cold.
-
- The Linux Digests mailing list should be easily fixed to support the new
- groups (correct me if I'm wrong, since I don't know anything about how
- it is implemented, but I can't see any obvious difficulties). Ditto for
- the Fidonet gateway, at least as far as technical difficulties are
- concerned. Political difficulties are a different matter: it is my
- understanding that the Fidonet people have a stronger tendency to let
- things be as they are because of (valid?) fear for trouble if anything
- changes. However, even if many people are going to get hurt by it, I do
- think that _if_ a split was necessary, it should be done even if the
- Fidonet people were going to be cut out.
-
- What _is_ the possibility of changing the Fidonet gateway? Can the
- person running it comment?
-
- Theodore also suggests that I add a section on Usenet etiquette to my
- meta-faq. I'd like to, but the meta-faq (already in my crontab and
- posted!) is too long for my liking as it is. But I'll look into it.
-
- I'll also make a proposal: how about a mailing list (possibly newsgroup,
- but that's what were trying to avoid :-) that summarizes the contents of
- c.o.l: it would have some volunteers who take turns (a week at a time,
- perhaps) and write summaries of all the threads in c.o.l, i.e. when
- somebody asks a question and a zillion people answer it, the summay
- contains just the question and a distillation of the answers. (It is my
- opinion, that much of summaries would be like:
-
- 455 questions answered in the FAQ and other documentation asked
- this week, along with 784 answers to the questions. All of
- these articles were unnecessary.
-
- But unfortunately I have no researched data to back me up.)
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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