Peter Busser <peter@idca.tds.philips.nl>:

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>Don't you think it is time to get a real newsgroup for Linux or is that
>too early? The traffic on the mailing list is more than we see in
>comp.os.misc or comp.os.mach or comp.os.xinu...  We could reach more
>people this way, as there are net.people who still don't know what Linux
>is although they are interested in the subject.  It seems that not many
>people read the comp.os.minix newsgroup, so the least we could do is
>posting some advertisements. 

I doubt a regular newsgroup would make it (yet), but how about a group
in the alt hierarchy? Or at least I think they should be relatively easy
to create (no voting etc). Of course, they aren't quite as widely
spread, but perhaps they are spread widely enough?

But I like the idea.
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Lars Wirzenius		wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi