Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Cabal Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 89 15:13:48 GMT References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <63@norsat.UUCP> <288@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <3031@looking.UUCP> <290@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <291@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <3230@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <14681@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <4534@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 29 In-reply-to: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu's message of 5 Apr 89 15:11:35 GMT sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes: Are there actually 15 to 20 people who meet your criterion of 10 or more news feeds, and would actualy WANT to do this? There almost certainly are. When I made my (failed) attempt at a replacement `backbone mailing list' last October, there were quite a few folks from `major' multifeed sites. There were about 30 people on the list, and perhaps half of them qualified as `major.' And how do you propose to determine who has that many feeds? Look at their sys file. (You don't want to see mine. :-) You'll have to trust them far enough that, when shown a sys file, you believe that it represents connections truthfully. Suppose I get up to 10 feeds, and am crazy enough to want to be on your board (cabal?)? That depends on how important news operation is to your site. It's positively essential to mine, so I, for one, would be interested - if I were convinced of the advisability of doing so, which is not (yet) a fact. My experience from last October does not give me confidence, unless the size of the group were *severely* restricted. The suggestions for 5 might work pretty well. Anything larger than 10 is doomed from the start. Cruising comfortably at 45 newsfeeds, --Karl