Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cfa203!thakur From: sandyg@sail.labs.tek.com (Sandy Grossmann) Newsgroups: rec.arts.cinema Subject: Re: the charter, thr group, the (lack of) traffic Message-ID: <1991Jun15.014911.17687@zerkalo.harvard.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 01:49:11 GMT References: <1991Jun8.224034.8360@cfa.harvard.edu> <1991Jun9.064801.11064@zerkalo.harvard.edu> <1991Jun9.183042.11310@zerkalo.harvard.edu> <1991Jun12.073029.14628@zerkalo.harvard.edu> <1991Jun12.232412.15264@zerkalo.harvard.edu> Sender: thakur@cfa.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur) Reply-To: sandyg@sail.labs.tek.com (Sandy Grossmann) Followup-To: rec.arts.cinema Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 40 Approved: thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu In article <1991Jun12.232412.15264@zerkalo.harvard.edu> David L. Phillips writes: >>I think a big reason for the lack of traffic is that there exists two >>BITNET mailing lists that pretty much cover what appears to be what >>rec.arts.cinema was trying to do. The two mailing lists are : >>SCREEN-L & FILM-L. >> >There is also CINEMA-L. (Can you provide Internet addresses for the sites of >the two you mentioned, please?) > The mailing lists have nothing to do with it for me. I'm not cross- subscribed. I didn't even know there were mailing lists... I think we need to examine the reasons people read this newsgroup before we immediately leap to the conclusion that there's a problem here. Is our concern that people aren't posting enough articles or that people aren't reading the group? Do we really have to meet some sort of monthly minimum?????!!! It could be that the lack of traffic is simply conservative behavior on the part of the readers. It doesn't take much insight to realize that this newsgroup is a forum for thoughtful exchange of fully developed ideas. It takes time to express a fully developed idea! Perhaps people are busy and can't take the time to post thoughtful discussion. That DOESN'T mean people don't read the postings or appreciate the newsgroup. I come to this newsgroup when I have time to consider (thoughtfully) the articles. I'm glad there's not a backlog of hundreds of submissions. I see no reason to change anything about the newsgroup. Certainly no reason to generate articles just for the sake of number of postings. Is there some problem I don't know about? Sandy G. sandyg@sail.labs.tek.com -------------- Sandra J. Grossmann User Interface Research Group, Computer Research Lab Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500, M/S 50-320, Beaverton, OR 97077