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From: snicoud@ATC.BOEING.COM (Stephen Nicoud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: RE: This group, other lispms
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Date: 17 Oct 89 00:27:00 GMT
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Here's my 2 cents worth.

A comp.sys.symbolics would probably have quite a bit more traffic
because the SLUG (Symbolics Lisp Users Group) <slug@ai.sri.com> is very
active (much more so than the comparable TI list
<info-ti-explorer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>) (assuming, of course that
slug is fed to comp.sys.symbolics).  I easily get half a dozen or more
messages a day from SLUG.  I'd say info-ti-explorer averages one or two
a week.  [Is that about right, Rich?]

I guess I see the feed of info-ti-explorer to USENET as a way of
expanding the audience of readers (and contributors).  Mailing lists are
not always well advertised (I worked at TI for 2 years before I heard of
this list).  Whereas, newsgroups announce themselves at creation, and
for new users are immediately available.

Your state a valid concern, though.  I, too, am disappointed at the
total traffic on info-ti-explorer, but it does provide a source for
getting explorer-related questions answered.  IMHO, most of the
discussions that take place on info-ti-explorer and slug primarily
concern themselves with the platform in question, and are not of general
interest to the other group.  Whenever I have a question that could be
of interest to both groups, I post it to both.

Another thing to consider is that often, source code is thrown around on
these two lists.  Because of the copyrighted nature of most of the
source (by TI and Symbolics), a combined group would probably lead to
more inadvertant use of copyrighted source on the wrong platform.

-- Steve	<snicoud@atc.boeing.com>