On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:14:04AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Newsgroups seem to get overwhelmed by off-topic posters, probably > because it's easier to subscribe to a group than sign up for and deal > with a mailing list.
OTOH, with a lot of mailing lists you don't even need to subscribe :-( . A lot of the "hiding" effect can be obtained by using a private server, but that can be very slow and somewhat defeats the point of using news. > I noticed those linux.debian.* newsgroups. They seem to be rarely > frequented. How did that whole 'linux.*' hierarchy get started anyway, linux.* consists of gated versions of various mailing lists (including this one). IIRC posting is not allowed there - it's read-only. If they are deserted it's probably more to do with poor or nonexistant propagation to your site than anything else. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
