billw@ncoast.UUCP (06/09/87)
Currently, the newsletter of the International FidoNet Association is posted
to comp.org.fidonet. I am interested in posting the newsletter of the
Electronic Networking Association of this network, but have absolutely
no idea where to put it. Seems to me that a moderated group,
comp.org.ena or even soc.org.ena would be the best place, but it doesn't seem
to be quite that easy to get new groups created. So... where should I put it?
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Bill Wisner
..{cbosgd,decvax}!cwruecmp!ncoast!billwsl@van-bc.UUCP (06/09/87)
In article <2595@ncoast.UUCP> billw@ncoast.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: >Currently, the newsletter of the International FidoNet Association is posted >to comp.org.fidonet. I am interested in posting the newsletter of the >Electronic Networking Association of this network, but have absolutely >no idea where to put it. Seems to me that a moderated group, >comp.org.ena or even soc.org.ena would be the best place, but it doesn't seem >to be quite that easy to get new groups created. So... where should I put it? Why do we need a separate news group for all these types of things? How about a news group called comp.newsletter for newsletters for anything to do with computers, or networking? If needed we could also have XXXX.newsletters for other types of newsletters. Unless there is going to be additional traffic or discussion there should be no need to have a separate group for information which is low volume (in terms of articles). -- Stuart Lynne ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532
spaf@gatech.UUCP (06/10/87)
In article <2595@ncoast.UUCP> billw@ncoast.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes: >Currently, the newsletter of the International FidoNet Association is posted >to comp.org.fidonet. I am interested in posting the newsletter of the >Electronic Networking Association of this network, but have absolutely >no idea where to put it. Before you try to figure out a niche for it, why don't you find out it there is any significant percentage of net readers who are interested in actually seeing it? If you find only a couple of dozen people who are interested, it would be better for them to get a surface mail subscription, or else distribute the electronic copy via a mailing list. -- Gene Spafford Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: spaf@gatech.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!spaf
rick@pcrat.UUCP (06/11/87)
> > I am interested in posting the newsletter of the > >Electronic Networking Association of this network, but have absolutely > >no idea where to put it. Seems to me that a moderated group, > >comp.org.ena or even soc.org.ena would be the best place, but it doesn't seem > >to be quite that easy to get new groups created. So... where should I put it? > > Why do we need a separate news group for all these types of things? > > How about a news group called comp.newsletter for newsletters for anything As more and more sites on the net begin paying for the feeds (such as UUNET sites), it becomes more important for news to be categorized, rather than just lumped into a group that already exists. Since I pay to have groups interesting to the employees of my company sent to our site, I support having more groups with a narrower interest range. For example, the only PC based UNIX group was comp.unix.xenix. Since I don't care to read about porting "rn" to XENIX ad infinitum, I created comp.unix.venix to contain information on that version of UNIX for the PC. Another example: comp.sources.misc. You'd think that this would be a sources only group. But no, for lack of a better place, the moderator accepts MSDOS BINARIES. These belong in a separate group, so that paying sites don't have to pay for stuff they don't want. For a traditional site, where all groups are received, the extra groups shouldn't be much burden, and the total amount of traffic would remain the same. -- Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc. (201) 922-1134 (voice, nights) OR (201) 834-1378 (voice, days) seismo!uunet!pcrat!rick ihnp4!castor!pcrat!rick
taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (06/14/87)
Bill Wisner asks how to distribute the newsletter of the Electronic Networking Association via Usenet. Well, Bill, if the ENA newsletter is what I think it is, then it might be a nice fit in with the Computers and Society Digest (which is gatewayed as a usenet group "comp.society"). I believe that we've had a bit of Computers and Society information make it into the ENA stuff anyway... If not, then I am *very* interested in reading it and will predict that there are at least as many people interested in it as the FidoNet stuff. So create a new newsgroup "comp.org.ena" and start posting them! ** remember: if it's a low volume group then it isn't a big deal anyway, right? And if it *is* a high-volume group then we'll have a new, interesting, discussion forum. Net.anarchist at large, and facilitator of the Computers and Society Digest, -- Dave Taylor
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (06/18/87)
As quoted from <333@pcrat.UUCP> by rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson): +--------------- | Another example: comp.sources.misc. You'd think that this would be a | sources only group. But no, for lack of a better place, the moderator | accepts MSDOS BINARIES. These belong in a separate group, so that | paying sites don't have to pay for stuff they don't want. +--------------- There has never been enough support for a PC binary group (I should know; my name was in the hat for moderating comp.sources.misc because I had volun- teered to moderate the last time a PC binary group was considered). However, I agree that binaries don't belong in .misc; since my whiskers are now a trifle longer due to my being a moderator, I newgroup'ed comp.binaries.ibm.pc a few days ago. (There may still not be enough volume. Is it worth it to start a new newsgroup if it only gets one article per month? I think not.) ++Brandon -- Copyright (C) 1987 Brandon S. Allbery. Redistribution permitted only if the redistributor permits further redistribution. (Stargate take heed!) ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ---- Brandon S. Allbery {decvax,cbosgd}!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery aXcess Company {ames,mit-eddie,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St. #A1-105 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU Mentor, OH 44060-4101 +01 216 974 9210 (also eddie.MIT.EDU)