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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: New/additional gopher at the Univ of Utah
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:17:34 GMT
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- Bill Silvert (silvert@cs.dal.ca) wrote:
- :
- : Not much of a solution. Aside from the fact that many fields of
- : interest are not adequately represented in Usenet newsgroups (like
- : marine biology), this is a very inefficient way to proceed.
-
- This suggests that a straightforward advertising and publicity and
- group creation approach (probably say "bionet.marine" would be a good
- one to start up) would maximize the effect of your gopher building
- efforts. At least then you could get the word out to quite a few
- people, by adding the information about your gopher server to the
- calls for discussion and for votes for the new group. I know that
- BIONET goes to places like Woods Hole, so you have at least some of
- a ready target audience already.
-
- The mere existence of gopher servers does not guarantee that there's
- going to be a thriving community maintaining them. It takes more than
- just a couple of servers running somewhere (invisible to 99.9% of the
- nets) to build up a set of people who are on the nets working together.
- In my experience there's quite a bit to be said for also have a newsgroup
- (or a LISTSERV or a good mailing list) handy for chatter, discussion, and
- various things that don't fit on menus so easily.
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
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