Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
"James A.Treacy" wrote: >I agree with everything Ian wrote. Might there be an >exception for debian-user though? This is the one group >for which we should welcome a wide exposure. I agree that debian-user should still be gatewayed. Perhaps debian-alpha and any other similar lists might als

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Sven Rudolph
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that there are problems with them being gatewayed. In general, I agree. > * Increased traffic on debian-devel from less-than-useful people. IMHO debian-devel should be restricted to technical issues. Too many politicking is done on debian-devel

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread James A . Treacy
I agree with everything Ian wrote. Might there be an exception for debian-user though? This is the one group for which we should welcome a wide exposure. - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Brian White
> > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > > that is your problem. > > > > The gateway was set up after ap

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Tim Sailer asks: > Is there a problem with them being gatewayed? I find them very useful I think that there are problems with them being gatewayed. In general, USENET has a low signal-to-noise ratio, and newsgroups have much greater exposure and attract a less clueful kind of reader and poster.

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 08:36 AM 10/12/97 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: >Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this >would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and >make it difficult for people to access information about the project then >that is your problem

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > that is your problem. > > The gateway wa