From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: misc questions(gcc2.11, filenames, this group) Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 03:53:09 GMT
From: rad@think.com (Bob Doolittle)
Date: 28 May 92 19:10:48 GMT
Al's point was to make a branch of the newsgroup for each of what is
currently a channel of linux-activists as a starting point. This would
simplify life greatly. Then we can make more subgroups as the need arises
(SCSI would be a good candidate, although there may already be a channel in
linux-activists for this).
Keep in mind that it takes 60 days to create a new newsgroup --- 30 days
for discussion, 30 days for voting. By that time, the nead for a
particular channel may be long gone.
Keep in mind that the original use of at least the GCC was as a place
for beta testers could get frequent updates about the state of the
world. (And indeed GCC v2 up until very recently was changing almost
daily.) So to put that on a mailing list, separate from comp.os.linux
is somewhat reasonable.
Yes, yes, I know, Linux is still beta software. Personally, I would
have preferred to see all of the discussions which take place on
joker.cs.hut.fi channels take place on comp.os.linux instead, but
apparently some people seem to be more comfortable with a mailing list
instead. Sigh....
- Ted