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

Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
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 approval by Bruce. On We