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- From: rossi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz)
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:42:20 GMT
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- aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current) writes:
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- >In a previous article, rossi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz) says:
- >
- >>I read comp.sys.atari.8bit regularly (nearly every day) and everytime I
- >>come up there are at least 10 articles posted here. Not everyone has the time
- >>to read everything. If you read here once a week lots of articles would be
- >>deleted without reading them first. An .archive newsgroup wouldn't be
- >>as 'overcrowded' because there wouldn't be as much articles.
- >Do you read newsgroups other than comp.sys.atari.8bit? I mean,
- >comp.sys.atari.st sees around 75-100 postings a day, rec.games.video more
- >than that. I can't say I've heard c.s.atari.8bit described as
- >'overcrowded' before. (I agree, 10 message/day sounds about right for this
- >group.)
- I read other newsgroups, too. But if there are 10 articles each day posted,
- it will be 70 a week and more than 300 a month. If you want to look for a
- special article, these are a lot of articles to be looked after.
-
- >>There is really no reason for not sending them to the archive site. The
- >>newsgroup moderator shall do exactly this to give new aspects to this site.
- >>But a newsgroup has several advantages :
- >>1. Readers can respond and send follow-ups (published coordinated by the
- >> moderator).
- >>2. You don't have to ftp to a site, not knowing if there is anything new
- >> there.
- >>3. You read newsgroups more often than you ftp to the archive.
- >>4. ftp site capacity is limited. This is not a good argument but it is one.
- >>5. Seeing articles automatically could be more creative and motivating to
- >> people.
- >>6. You publish it to people all over the world. The AC mag is mostly selled
- >> in the US (isn't it ?).
- >> Maybe combinating all three solutions of the problem (and there is one)
- >> would be the best solution at all.
- >
- >These are all basically valid for postings to comp.sys.atari.8bit.
- No. c.s.a.8bit is not moderated, so there noone to coordinate knowledge and
- follow-ups or corrections. This is the rason because unmoderated newsgroups
- are not interesting for readers reading it not frequently. They don't get
- the theme of a follow-up series so they don't post their opinion to the
- group. If all this is linked into one article (without all the double lines)
- all persons are able to get the whole thing.
- Also, there is NO reason against a 2nd 8bit-newsgroup.
- So just say YES and we will see, if there are 100 people standing for it.
-
- >Jeff will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe AC is striving to be a
- >worldwide forum for 8-bit Atari users.
- Okay, you're right, but I guess, most subscribers/readers live in the
- US and Canada, don't they ?
-
- >Another consideration is that a small but significant number of
- >participants of this discussion group do not have Usenet access, reading
- >the Info-Atari8 Digest. These people would not have access to another
- >newsgroup.
- That's correct. Why don't we handle this like with this newsgroup?
- All articles in the 2nd ng will go to the Digest, too.
-
- >And again, the point is probably moot, because if we can not produce 100
- >Yes votes we simply cannot create another newsgroup.
- Please Michael, don't be as negative as you are.
- JUST SAY
- YES
- and you're the 2nd of only 100.
-
- We'll see how much people there will be...
-
- --==rossi==--
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