Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Is USENET stagnating? (long) Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 89 22:24:58 GMT References: <9499@max.u.washington.edu> <1989Nov1.173352.25882@utzoo.uucp> <36116@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 13 In-reply-to: chuq@Apple.COM's message of 1 Nov 89 19:40:55 GMT chuq@Apple.COM writes: If some way could be set up to get a reasonable-sized committee of whatevers, I think it could be made to work again. Said number to be at least half a dozen and no more than 15 or 20. 15 or 20 is already much too large. Just about exactly a year ago, I tried to resurrect a mailing list of backbone-like people, in terms of interest in and dedication to do something with various Usenet issues. It fell apart in less than 4 weeks. There were only ~25 people. Try 10. Maybe 5. --Karl