Subject: Newsgroup Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 15:43:22 +0200 From: wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Peter Busser <peter@idca.tds.philips.nl>:
>Don't you think it is time to get a real newsgroup for Linux or is that
>too early? The traffic on the mailing list is more than we see in
>comp.os.misc or comp.os.mach or comp.os.xinu... We could reach more
>people this way, as there are net.people who still don't know what Linux
>is although they are interested in the subject. It seems that not many
>people read the comp.os.minix newsgroup, so the least we could do is
>posting some advertisements.
I doubt a regular newsgroup would make it (yet), but how about a group
in the alt hierarchy? Or at least I think they should be relatively easy
to create (no voting etc). Of course, they aren't quite as widely
spread, but perhaps they are spread widely enough?
But I like the idea.
-- Lars Wirzenius wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi