Re: New newsgroup for Debian users
From: Timothy Kaine (creepyt_at_thedizzletothesizzleonline.com)
Date: 08/27/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:21:01 GMT
Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Hi
>
> Following positive response in comp.os.linux.misc and generally supportive
> response in alt.config, I have created the first unmoderated newsgroup for
> Debian GNU Linux - alt.os.linux.debian by sending out the control message.
>
> 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.
Theres already linux.debian and a million sub-groups of that. Why? Noone
posts even in that one.
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