First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

From: Madhusudan Singh (msdebian_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by
    requesting them to carry it.

    Let us get it started.

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    CHARTER:
    For questions and answers relating to the installation and use of different
    flavors of Debian GNU Linux (stable, testing, unstable and other derivant
    distributions). The newsgroup will be unmoderated.

    JUSTIFICATION:
    Debian GNU Linux is one of the most popular Linux distributions
    (consistently ranked in the top 5-6 distros -
    http://www.distrowatch.org/stats.php?section=popularity ). Its user base
    probably numbers in millions worldwide. The largest number of derivant
    Linux distributions are based on Debian (97 -
    http://www.distrowatch.org/stats.php?section=independence ). A survey of
    available Debian newsgroups on groups.google.com reveals that there are no
    unmoderated newsgroups available specifically for Debian GNU Linux. The
    newsgroups in the linux.debian.* hierarchy are all moderated and are
    linked to mailing lists via a mail to news gateway, and hence require a
    valid email address for users to even post their queries. Though these
    lists have heavy traffic, a large number of Debian related posts end up on
    the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy every day. These newsgroups (under comp) are
    not specifically geared towards Debian and people often get incomplete
    advice for their problems.Over the past one year, the number of users
    using Debian and derivant distributions like Knoppix has steadily risen
    partially due to its highly evolved package management system and the
    discontinuation of the personal version of Red Hat Linux. Thus, creation
    of this newsgroup would at once be timely and extremely well received.

    In this age of spammers harvesting email addresses from newsgroups and
    mailing lists (such as linux.debian.*), with spam rising to above 60 % of
    total email traffic (http://www.brightmail.com/spamstats.html), ability
    to use spam.invalid style addresses in unmoderated genuine newsgroups can
    help in alleviating this problem. 

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