Im not so sure about that. I doubt people would actually READ all the
individual groups. Plus, the threading ability that most usenet readers
have would make it unnecessary to break the groups up anymore than a group
for discussion and a group for projects.
AND.. to bruce: hmmm, so you did say that :).. I guess i answered a little
too quickly.
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ryan Matteson wrote:
> I still think we need to break this up into 20 diff groups or so. I feel
> this would eliminate some of the non-sense that has gone on recently. We
> can have a gateway mailing list for the people who wish to venture to
> gateway, an announce list for annoucements and a technical list for
> tech related questions. Maybe have a slurpy list for those of us who
> wish to discuss 7-11's slurpy of the month too?
>
> Just my .02
>
> Ryan
>
> Scott Yellig wrote:
> >
> > Now THAT is a damned fine idea.
> >
> > Would you suggest keeping a mailing list for announcements?
> >
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> > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Bruce Smith wrote:
> >
> > > There is another way to do this, that nobody has mentioned yet.
> > >
> > > We could do away with chatter on the mailing list by running our
> > > own news server on the KLUG box. Keep the mailing list just for
> > > announcements (maybe restrict it), and start our own newsgroup(s)
> > > to talk about Linux.
> > >
> > > I personally find a newsgroup easier to read than a mailing list
> > > because you can get a list of messages sorted by thread, and nuke
> > > threads that are not of interest. (like going to Gateway! :)
> > >
> > > Questions, comments, flames . . . ?
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > > Bruce Smith bruce@armintl.com
> > > System Administrator / Network Administrator
> > > Armstrong International, Inc.
> > > Three Rivers, Michigan 49093 USA
> > > http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > >
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