Article 81 of eunet.news: | |
Path: | icdoc!zmact61 |
>From: | zmact61@doc.ic.ac.uk (D Spinellis) |
Newsgroups: | bit.admin,eunet.news |
Subject: | Re: Proposed changes to bit.all |
Message-ID: | <1811@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> |
Date: | 24 Apr 90 14:34:03 GMT |
References: | <90107.164808LRL@psuvm.psu.edu> <8031@becker.UUCP> <Eo&6&b6@cs.psu.edu> <2935@stl.stc.co.uk> |
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Reply-To: | dds@cc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) |
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In article <2935@stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk> writes: >In article <Eo&6&b6@cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >#I'm going to be posting a checkgroups message about once a month in >#bit.admin. Next one in about a week, after the List of Gateways comes out. [...] >Finally, for people concerned with the volume, these have been the ten >highest volume groups recently (as seen at this site): > > 7 days Name >---------- ---- > 172 354k hellas > 63 282k ibmtcp-l > 92 233k christia [...] >I wonder if b.l.hellas could be merged with soc.culture.greek? The two groups carry considerably different trafic. The soc.culture.greek group contains discussions on Greek culture and politics. Most of the discussions are in English (with an war every so often as to the language that should be used) and articles range from Greek music, to how to make Greek coffee, to Greek history and the Cyprus problem. Many non Greek people participate to the forum usualy asking questions. Bit.listserv.hellas is read and written almost exclusively by Greeks. The language is Greek by using a great variaty of transpositions of the Greek character set into ASCII. There are many more political discussions and it also serves as a meeting point for Greeks (a sort of `kafeneeo'). Messages of the form `I am looking for George Papadopoulos who studies somewhere in Canada' are common. I think merging the two groups would increase the noise of soc.culure.greek considerably and would alianate all its non-Greek readership. I am sure there will also be considerable technical problems. [...] >Most of the others look mergable too. This would reduce the >exclusively listserv volume considerably, and make the remaining >traffic more acceptable to sites worried about volume. One thing that worries me is the trafic crossing the Atlantic twice. It used to be the case (is it still?) that the cost of News in Europe was dominated by the cost of the transatlantic conneciton. Are the bit.* newsgroups comming to Europe once over bitnet and once over Usenet? Regards, Diomidis -- Diomidis Spinellis Internet: dds@cc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing UUCP: ...!ukc!iccc!dds Imperial College JANET: dds@uk.ac.ic.cc London SW7 2BZ #include "/dev/tty"
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