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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.043947.9935@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:39:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
- >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,
-
- I too am having some time keeping up with c.o.l., but HOWEVER,
- I don't think you realize the extent of what you said, with all due
- respects of course. "Probably the least interesting posts are newbie.."?
- Do no forget that you too was a newbie once, so just because you know
- how to fiddle with Linux, it doesn't mean that newbies can be ignored.
- Come on. Would you have felt that way, if you are a newbie and someone
- suggested that newbies should go somewhere separate? This is where most
- newbies look, and if you say that they should look elsewhere, I don't think
- that's being fair. Sure it may help to have a separate forum, but
- quite frankly, I don't think any Linux Gurus/Pros/Wizards would sit in
- front of the terminal, reading each newbie question in the other
- "help forums", when each newbie question can be answered by reading
- the FAQ.
-
- Maybe I'm just a bit outta line here, as I'm also what you can
- label as a 'newbie'; but I can empathize with you AND the newbies.
-
-
- >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.
-
- That could help though, I mean, by having a mailing list. Having
- a separate alt.* newsgroup, I don't know. Most of the newbie questions
- that I've read, and (a few posted as well by me :>) are in the FAQ,
- so having a separate Alt.* newsgroup (or whatever newsgroup) will
- waste certain site's money. I mean, like would an Internet site
- even bother about another area when it's filled with questions which
- are answered in the FAQ? I don't think so.
-
- >
- >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.
-
- I don't know. Considering it does have something to do with Linux
- and it's operatives, so I think that kinda discussion COULD be discussed
- on c.o.l., but hey, it's my $0.02 worth, anyway.
-
- >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!
-
- Hear, Hear. Now that, I totally agree with. Those kinds of messages
- do waste the bandwidth.
-
- But how about these? Don't these messages waste bandwidth, or is
- it considered as a healthy discussion for the benefit of this newsgroup?
-
-
- PS: No offense implied/inferred/explicitly stated. Just merely
- stating my p.o.v.
-
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