Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 08:19:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Tomislav Vujec <tvujec AT fly DOT cc DOT etf DOT hr>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Sometimes ...


On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Tomislav Vujec wrote:

> 	Sometimes, I wish that c.o.m.d. didn't pass. Why? When we were on just
> mailing list, there wasn't messages like size of a.out, before couple of
> weeks, and recent Watcom flame. There was more useful questions and answers,
> and Eli had less work to answer faq. I wonder how long he'll survive.

I wonder about that, too.  However, my statistics indicate that there 
wasn't any increase in the number of faq's posted since the newsgroup was 
created.  Which is almost unbelievable, given that the number of 
potential posters must have grown significantly.  (Btw, do we have 
numbers about how many people read c.o.m.d. now?  Maybe it should go 
into the weekly mini-FAQ?)

I agree that there are more flaming posts now, but only slightly so.  I 
think that the current level is quite tolerable (but that's a matter of 
personal opinion, of course).  A certain decrease in the traffic quality 
is probably inevitable when you move to a larger forum, but I was afraid 
it will be much worse.

> 	So, I came to IMHO, an interesting conclusion. Could we separate m.l.
> from news? That leads to less overloading of listserv, and if someone feels
> like it, he always can have "political" discussions on news, and interesting
> subjects on list. Is there anybody who'll support this opinion?

I don't think this is necessary.  This solution has many disadvantages 
(both technical for those who would like to read both the list and the 
newsgroup, and clerical for those who grant us these services), and as 
the things are right now, IMHO its advantage would be minimal.