Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Juri Pakaste
DG == David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DG On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
If you think about it, c.o.l is really a misnomer. Linux is not really the operating system. Debian is the operating system. Linux is just a kernel, that many operating systems have based themselves on because it's freely available and it has a lot of support on the net. In that light,

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread Brian C. White
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.announce moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.install moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.nontech moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.tech moderated group

RE: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread Casper BodenCummins
If there are 500 posts a day to comp.lang.c++, it strikes me that this group is *begging* to be split up. Besides the wading-through-heaps-of-stuff-you-'re-not-interested-in factor, some of us have to pay to receive news articles and suchlike, and a better targeted audience would save us lots of

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread Juri Pakaste
BCW == Brian C White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.announce moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.install moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.nontech moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.tech moderated group

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread David Gaudine
On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with c.o.l.{debian,redhat,caldera,slackware,craftworks,yggdrasil,wgs,