On Tue, 11 July 2000, Gary wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Mircea Luca wrote:
>
> > I'm interesed but the only problem I see is that it should be hosted
> > on a dedicated server,outside the ISP's ares,so it can be accesible
> > by everybody regardless of their ISP,otherwise it doesn't
> > have too much point IMHO since there is already a Stormix group in
> > the ISP chain.Any thoughts on this?
>
> The problem with the current newsgroup, alt.linux.stormix, is that due to
> bad planning on behalf of the person that issue the newgroup post, an
> rmgroup post was issued shortly thereafter. This is why that group is not
> on many servers out there. Most news admins configure their servers to
> auto process newgroup and rmgroup msgs for the alt.* hierarchy.
>
> As for hosting it somewhere, who would be willing to do so? You don't
> really want to open up a server to posting from just anyone, even if it is
> just to one group. Perhaps a web-based read only interface would be doable
> but even then we've got deja.com for that... *shrug*
>
> Part of the reason I've posted this here is because part of the process of
> creating a new alt group should be to generate some interest in the
> already exisiting community(ies) beforehand. If you like, I can be sure to
> notify the list when the group has been created so you can look for it on
> your local news server or request it be added by your admin. Most ISPs
> have a 'news,' 'usenet,' or 'support' alias that you can contact for such
> purposes.
>
> -Gary
When this news group was first considered I had suggested a Bulletin Board be set up
instead. Some similar to the Linuxnewbie discussion group:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
Maybe even start a thread on the Newbie board??? Hey, it is already setup! ;-)
TC
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