geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh) (05/09/91)
In article <LF8L25w164w@halcyon.uucp> halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) writes: >geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh) writes: > >> It took me months to tire of the Fido DESQVIEW conference, >> partly because there is a QuarterDeck agent participating - at >> least there was some tech info there. > >It may well benefit folks if some kind soul would work with Peter >Stern or others of the FidoNet DV echo and get it gated to this >newsgroup. There are many sites which could gate the DESQVIEW echo to comp.os.msdos.desqview but, frankly, I don't think you'd like it. For one thing, volume here seems to be on the order of 20 messages per day; on Fido, it's more like 120. If the readership at large would still like to see the gateway installed, let me know. On the other hand, I could probably speak to the agent participating in the Fido echo about setting up a Usenet feed for direct participation... but I don't know if he'll be able to get a local feed easily. Geoff
lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) (05/09/91)
From article <1991May08.171837.1549@xenitec.on.ca>, by geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh): > There are many sites which could gate the DESQVIEW echo to > comp.os.msdos.desqview but, frankly, I don't think you'd like it. > For one thing, volume here seems to be on the order of 20 messages > per day; on Fido, it's more like 120. > > If the readership at large would still like to see the gateway > installed, let me know. On the other hand, I could probably > speak to the agent participating in the Fido echo about setting up > a Usenet feed for direct participation... but I don't know if he'll > be able to get a local feed easily. Just a word of warning. A few years ago I proposed a similar thing in the OS/2 echo. I contacted the creator of the Fidonet OS/2 echomail area and got his approval. I tried to find the originator of comp.sys.os2, but no one responded. I then had a one month long vote in both newsgroups to see what the readership thought. Both sides said go for it. I started it up, and said I would run it for one month. At that time we could have another vote to decide whether to keep it or not. Less than a week later, I was blasted by someone who said he was the person who created the OS/2 newsgroup, and he wanted the gating stopped ... NOW. I suggest everyone drop the idea of combining the two groups together into one. Instead, create a new newsgroup, perhaps FIDO.DESQVIEW or ALT.DESQVIEW which is outside of Usenet control, and run the two conferences in parallel. - Kevin Lowey
chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) (05/11/91)
According to lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey): >Less than a week later, I was blasted by someone who said he was the person >who created the OS/2 newsgroup, and he wanted the gating stopped ... NOW. Oh, posh. There is no such thing as a newsgroup creator. Maybe the person in question ran the vote; if so, he has *no* special authority. I would have ignored such a windbag. >I suggest everyone drop the idea of combining the two groups together into >one. Instead, create a new newsgroup, perhaps FIDO.DESQVIEW or ALT.DESQVIEW >which is outside of Usenet control, and run the two conferences in parallel. I really do like this idea, though. It allows those who wish to avoid the Fido traffic to do so easily.