Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <199504232330.QAA28279@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504232117.XAA02403@jette.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 23, 95 11:17:12 pm
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> > > > > The hackers list is already near 10 MB / month. I won't like to see > > it further bloated. > > > > The -hackers mailing list reads like a newsgroup anyways, so two-way > > gating will allow you to unsubscribe from -hackers and just read the > > articles in the newsgroup you're interested in following. > > I still don't like it. Usenet is too slow to respond in a timely > fashion, at least at this end of the world here. > > A fully two-way gateway would further bloat the list. 80 % of the > questions asked in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc can easily be answered > by 80 % of the user base out there. There is absolutely no need to ask > this kind of stuff to the _developers_ of the system. Most of the > people apparently lack a good unix introduction. The easier our > install procedure will become, the larger this part of the newsgroup > questions will grow. This is not to say that this is a bad thing, > but IMHO, Usenet is better suited for a user <-> user support, while > the mailing lists provide for a way to have user <-> developer > interaction. We do need both. > Ok but what aare we trying to achieve? 1/ we want people looking at the usenet groups to decide which OS to get to realise that there is a lot of support with FreeBSD. (and a lot of users) 2/ we want people who just 'check-out' the news group, to stay current to see answers to problems and not just problems It's largely a PR exercise as well as a real tech-support issue. 3/ We don't want people answering on the newsgroup if the original posting was in the mailing list.. My suggestion: 'questions' is gated to the news group by being sent to an alias 'news' all 'news' items have the following headder tacked on the FRONT of them before being gated to usenet: **************************************************************************** * This article has been forwarded to USENET from the FreeBSD-questions * * mailing list. It's appearance here on USENET is for informational * * purposes only. Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen * * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to: * * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org * * send mail to majordome@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information * **************************************************************************** Note: this is a ONE WAY gate, that allows people to see the activity and makes it explicitly known what to do to respond.. julian
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