Xref: utzoo news.groups:17519 news.admin:8256 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: New hierarchy Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 90 16:12:53 GMT References: <9JH1AC9xds8@ficc.uu.net> <2113.25cf052b@mccall.uucp> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: tp@mccall.uucp's message of 6 Feb 90 17:11:06 GMT In article <2113.25cf052b@mccall.uucp> tp@mccall.uucp writes: In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: Offer to exchange it with your neighbors... If they want, they can offer to exchange [it] with their neighbors. Before long, you've got a movement. That is the slow but painless way... there is an alternate approach... [describes broadcast announcements]... The upshot is that there were over 150 sites carrying the distribution within 2 weeks... But it is very probably faster than the method above (although certainly not as painless). Depends upon your temperament and your tendency to masochism :-) I prefer slow discipleship to Luis Palau/Billy Graham-style mass crusades, too. I guess the deciding factor would be what you envision for the size of your potential user community. Well, gnu.* seems to be well-distributed to a pretty huge community. Regardless, I just wanted it for my own convenience and figured others might like it too. It grew like mildew inside a shower curtain. There was no real marketing involved.