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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:sandy.harris@sympatico.ca">sandy.harris@sympatico.ca</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: [mjr@iki.fi: Re: Resuming HOWTO posting]</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:bf347@lafn.org">bf347@lafn.org</A> (David Lawyer)</li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:24:31 -0800</li>
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>David Lawyer wrote:
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>> With about 200 mirror sites, is there much point in posting HOWTOs to cola?
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In the above context cola = c.o.l.answers.
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Sandy Harris wrote:
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>Certainly c.o.l.announce should get all major announcements, things like
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>publication
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>of a new Handbook, a new mirror if it is particularly fast or well-located, ...
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Agreed. But, I wasn't talking about c.o.l.announce.
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>> If there is and it's easy to to, then OK. But if it will take some
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>> time to write scripts to implement it, then it might be best to just
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>> abolish the newsgroup.
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>Quite difficult, not within the LDP's scope, and not a good idea.
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We're talking about abolishing c.o.l.answers. I just checked it and it
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seems dead (nothing recently posted) so in a sense it has almost been
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abolished.
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>> "Answers" is just too broad of a topic for a Linux newsgroup.
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>Nonsense. There are many *.answers newsgroups and have been for years.
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>They exist
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>mainly for FAQs, but any informative periodic posting should be OK.
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If there is significant interest in "answers" why is not anyone posting
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there? Isn't "misc" a better name for answers to miscellaneous Linux
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questions? We also have a number of specific Linux newsgroups and need many
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more as the traffic on some is over 100 postings a day. But I don't see
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much of a need for one named "answers". So we could suggest that
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"answers" be abolished and that several new linux newsgroups be created.
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I don't follow any of them, but those that do should have some ideas on
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what new ones are needed.
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>Any Linux FAQ document posted either to another newsgroup or to the web should also
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>appear in at least c.o.l.answers, comp.answers (all computer FAQs) and news.answers
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>(all FAQs).
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David Lawyer
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