Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:3308 comp.sys.att:6990 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!ames!zorch!scott From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Too much cross-posting? Message-ID: <170@zorch.UU.NET> Date: 16 Jul 89 16:25:02 GMT References: <674@whizz.uucp> <159@zorch.UU.NET> <696@whizz.uucp> <490@manta.pha.pa.us> Reply-To: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) Followup-To: unix-pc.general Organization: Zorch Public-Access Unix; San Jose, CA Lines: 31 In article <490@manta.pha.pa.us> brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) writes: >For those folks, the solution is: join the unix-pc mailing list. >The mailing list is the solution, and it's already operating. All it could >use is a little advertising. With reference to this point, I've been thinking of a monthly posting to comp.sys.att announcing the existence of the list. It should be a short posting, so people can read it, with a fixed Subject: line so other people can put it into their kill files... :-) >I really do think it arrogant to expect that 10,000+ sites, most with little >or no interest in unix-pc's, should spend THEIR money, time, and effort >supporting OUR habits. And before anyone suggests that a mailing list still makes other sites (those on the mail paths) carry our load, let me point out that *mail* traffic through a site is carried without question. A point of curiousity, to those who were not here at the time: The unix-pc mailing list arose out of a previous round of discussion on the topic of merging unix-pc.* and comp.sys.att. At that time, I had proposed gatewaying unix-pc.* traffic into comp.sys.att, but since there was no consensus, I announced that I would start a mailing list and would bring the topic up again at such time as the number of subscribers to the list justified it. It has been a year and a half and there have been at no time more than 35 addresses on the list. Thus, my position that moving the unix-pc.* discussions into the Usenet mainstream is not justified. -- Scott Hazen Mueller| scott@zorch.UU.NET (pyramid|tolerant|uunet)!zorch!scott 685 Balfour Drive | (408) 298-6213 |Send mail to fusion-request@zorch.UU.NET San Jose, CA 95111 |No dsclmr, my cmptr|for sci.physics.fusion digests via email