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- From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,alt.uu.future,alt.uu.comp.misc
- Subject: Re: Is it time to subdivide this group?
- Message-ID: <s9usqB1w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:39:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.170948.8351@nntp.hut.fi>
- Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
- Lines: 49
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- jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
-
- > >I have 50 messages in the last 12 hours...
- >
- > This offers me an excuse to repeat the proposal to use an UU group ;-)
- > (note the crosspost)
- >
- > From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- > Subject: A newsgroup for newcomers - using alt.uu.comp.misc?
- > Message-ID: <1992Aug20.132607.18791@nntp.hut.fi>
- >
- > Whew, comp.os.linux really has an active crowd of talented people.
- >
- > There has been talk about splitting comp.os.linux and/or helping out
- > newcomers to the *ix family of operating systems for various reasons.
- >
- > To help solve some of the problems, I'd like to propose start using
- > the alt.uu.comp.misc group (and later possibly alt.uu.comp.linux.*
- > groups) for topics for newcomers of Linux, and possibly authoring
- > document material / tutorial material and/or tutorial software to
- > help people learn Linux.
-
- While I realize that your intentions were to try to give neophytes a
- place of their own, the realities aren't so philanthropic.
-
- First, altnet is seriously lacking the propagation that usenet has.
- Second, you're suggestion asks for a dividing line that in practice
- would turn out to be awfully vague. What would define a "new guy?"
- As it is, common questions get directed to the FAQ --but many are
- answered separately, and they need to be.
-
- Linux has a number of variations :-) and the information exchange at
- this point, as I've observed, goes as much to those asking as it does
- those developing. To categorize a group like this according to exper-
- tise will perhaps do more harm than good --even though it might reduce
- volume. It may not even reduce volume. If "those in the know" aren't
- hanging out in the altnet, but here instead, then those with questions
- are going to come here anyway.
-
- If the intent is to categorize and not discriminate (tm) then it might
- be better to look at areas of concern rather than levels of knowledge.
-
- my $0.02. :-)
-
-
-
- ---
- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
-