From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: creating a newsgroup 11 Aug 1998 02:23:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6zO9sh94pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Hirmke Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 7 Aug 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote: > I have no interest in reading a newsgroup *and* a mailing list covering > the same topics and so far can see no sense in creating a newsgroup. > Therefore I didn't write anything to anyone regarding this topic :) Then don't! I'm not sure if you realize this, but most of the usual GNU newsgroups (and lots of the programming ones) started out from a mailing lists and then turned into newsgroups when the traffic mushroomed. Lots of these are still gatewayed in and out of mailing list. You only have to read one or the other, but not both unless you want to. I subscribe to some of these since we archive them for local use, but actually read/post using the newsgroup part. I believe that the reason there is such little interest shown so far is because the people who complain the most about irrelevant traffic (eg., myself) don't want to take the time to create the newsgroup. We just hope someone else will do it, and not bother us with the details ;-) Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".