Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 09:06:29 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: volker AT sfb256 DOT iam DOT uni-bonn DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Newsgroup?

Volker replied:
   to DJ's post:
   > The last time I talked with FSF, they were willing to create a
   > newsgroup for us, but they wanted three groups (announce, help, bugs
   > ?) 

   Hey, that's great!

   >so I needed another mailing list to go with them (djgpp-bugs?).
   > It's been a while so I forget the details.

   Isn't there anyone out there who can help you set it up?  You sure have done
   a lot for us all already!

Agreed, DJ has done a lot.  I beleive the problem here is (1) we have
mor or less agreed that people who are satisfied with the way things
are should not be screwed up by the switch-over if it can be avoided.
(Eg, my site recently dropped the gnu.* hierarchy!  Grrrrr.) and (2)
besides DJ himself, the Clarkson people are seriously overworked, and
coordinating the gatewaying and creating of a new group is going to
take a good chunk of somebody's day or week (we all know that the
Clarkson listserv is about as reliable technology as the typical
multi-service munitions---no flame intended, but being realistic).
    It *is* non-trivial.  I've seen some reasonably intelligent people
make serious fools of themselves recently by trying to go it alone
creating Internet information resources....
    --Steve