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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>: Stein Gjoen <<A HREF="mailto:sgjoen@mail.nyx.net">sgjoen@mail.nyx.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:03:27 +0100</li>
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[some snipping, excessive linelengths ahead...]
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David Lawyer wrote:
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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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How was it done in the past? I would strongly recommend
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getting something out now, even if it has to be done
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semi-manually. Then, let us look at how Greg did it earlier.
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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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>From where I see the only remainingposting is from the Linux Journal,
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last post at 8th November. It looks like they post around first week
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in every month. Clearly the newsgroup is not entirely dead but the
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main purpose is no longer in force.
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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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The .answers is for more authoratative postings and the group is
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moderated to reduce noise. The .setup group is the noisy alternative.
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Perhaps some help indeces could be posted to that group with some high
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visibility subject lines?
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We have some statistics for traffic in the help groups and could use
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these to get an idea of the usefulness of using .answers; as it is
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today very few of the replies to requests for help even mention the
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LDP or the HOWTOs.
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Regards,
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Stein Gjoen
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