Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!rutgers!princeton!udel!burdvax!bpa!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!devon!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.config Subject: Re: Request: alt.sysops & alt.bbstalk Message-ID: <4549@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 18:40:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4549 Posted: Tue Sep 22 18:40:25 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 08:06:03 EDT References: <4533@ncoast.UUCP> <1354@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: alt.config Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <1354@dasys1.UUCP> by rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney): +--------------- | In article <4533@ncoast.UUCP> robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Rob DeMarco) writes: | > | > I am proposing that a news group | >called "alt.sysops" and "alt.bbstalk" | >be set up | | I believe I referenced this topic when the issue of the 'talk' groups | of the same names was raised recently, but here I go again: as | administrator of the 'mail.sysops' network mailing list, I believe | that the need for a newsgroup doesn't yet exist. 'mail.sysops' currently | has 47 subscribers, and processes approx. 1-2 messages per MONTH. Perhaps | the list needs new blood; I don't know, but it seems to me that there | just aren't all that many people on the USENET interested in BBS operations. +--------------- Agreed. The UNaXcess Conferencing mailing list got zero volume even when the addresses were valid (most outgoing ones are shot, I'm building a new list from scratch now). I suspect that the majority of Usenetters interested in the BBS world get their "fixes" from their local Fido nodes. I know I do. Maybe when Fido and Usenet are fully gatewayed, there will be sufficient interest for a newsgroup. (A bidirectional comp.org.fidonet?) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> "Mummy, what's an opinion?"