From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: Splitting c.o.l Again, and Again, and AGAIN!!! Date: 25 Oct 1992 09:18:01 GMT
jsp@math.ksu.edu (Jeff S. Pihl) writes:
>Why don't we create comp.os.linux.split and let all of this
It already exists! It is called news.groups. Of course, the Fidonet
people and the mailing list people will have a difficulty in reading
news.groups... not to mention the people who complain that c.o.l is
busy (wonderful experiment not to be tried at home: start several
controversial newsgroup reorganizations at a time, and watch news.groups
have several hundred new articles per day :-).
BTW, is there an estimate of how many people are reading c.o.l via
Fidonet? A proper estimate, based on empirical data, not pure guesses.
Do the people who run the gateway(s) know?
If not, perhaps the sysops of the bulleting boards that carry the
conference (LINUX I think it is called) could send me a mail with some
approxmation of the number of people who read it? I would prefer that
not everybody who reads c.o.l via Fidonet send me mail, I can only
digest that much mail per day, you know.