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- From: dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim)
- Subject: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:28:11 GMT
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- I have almost gotten to the point where I can no longer keep up with c.o.l.,
- even though I want to. As the group is *not* going to be split any time
- soon, I would like to suggest that we try instead to reduce the traffic in
- here!
-
- Probably the least interesting posts are newbie questions and please for
- help. Perhaps we can cut down on these by setting up separate help forums,
- and *advertising* them, here, in the [meta-]faq, with linux distributions,
- in the form of instructions for getting help... with posting to c.o.l.
- listed as a last resort only! Such forums already exist for many people,
- by contacting other local users, irc, etc. Maybe we could also set up a
- separate alt.* newsgroup, or a mailing list or something that will serve
- as a "help line". Maybe lots of small, local help line mailing lists.
-
- Of course, there is also the issue of keeping things that don't belong out
- of the group...for example, the whole "linux v. coherent" discussion should
- have been somewhere else, like comp.unix.pc-clone or whatever it's called.
- Also, I sometimes see followups that could very well have gone by email.
- And maybe we can also cut down on messages without content? Some humor is
- good, but not when somebody posts a long quotation of someone else and
- adds some one-liner, with nothing else! People should realize how many
- other people's time they are wasting... and they may be pushing some people
- over the edge to decide that they can't keep up with the volume in here.
- Please, people, think before posting!
-
- Respectfully submitted,
-
- -- |)aniel Thumim
- dthumim@athena.mit.edu
-