From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux Date: 21 Oct 1992 04:12:51 GMT
In article <7H2ysB2w164w@q106fm.uucp> pete@q106fm.uucp (pete cervasio) writes:
|curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
|
|>
|> In article <mq2XsB1w164w@q106fm.uucp> pete@q106fm.uucp (pete cervasio) writes
|> >
|> >I'm going to create a bulletin on my bbs as soon as the cfv shows up
|> >letting people know how to vote, and what the best vote for them would
|> >probably be...
|>
|> Remember that even for Fidonet people, a split would have pluses: it
|> would create a significant improvement in quantity and quality of traffic.
|
|HOW THE F__K IS IT GOING TO DO THAT?? I thought we were supposed to be
|getting exactly what we're getting now, since _everything_ is going to
|be crossposted to the one newsgroup that will be gated to/from Fidonet.
You will - but remember that there are perhaps a hundred times
as many people on Usenet. And _they_ certainly wouldn't read the
Fidonet crosspost group, or monopost to it. They'd be reading
the Usenet group specific to their interests - and be a lot more
active, because they wouldn't have to wade through so much crap
to get things done.
The argument of people with Waffle and other brain-dead news
servers does not, I think, hold water. If your disk space is
already at its limit, you're going to need an upgrade soon
anyway; if not, doubling c.o.l won't push you over the line.
And the linux newsgroup _is_ a special case; it's very important
that Fidonet sites be able to receive it properly.
c