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Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions
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Jan Hlavacek |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 01:37:18 -0400 |
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:36:45PM -0400, John wrote:
> This has been discussed before. The problem is that such a
> newsgroup would most likely be frequented by lynx USERS with
> questions rather than DEVELOPERS which is a very small group
> (60 +/- active of the 60 million worldwide with web access,
> that's 1 in a million!). My thought is that a
> ...browsers.lynx newsgroup would probably be most helpful
> for the USERS who have questions about 'how do I do this or
> that or make multiple bookmarks or print out or whatever',
> but the DEVELOPERS' questions comments discussions etc are
> probably best done via mail list.
>
> One advantage of the newsgroup idea is that it would take
> some of the traffic off the mail list which is unrelated to
> 'development'. The developers could (and should) then
> 'lurk' the newsgroup to see what problems users are having,
> similar to the way in which the PINE developers lurk the
> comp.mail.pine newsgroup. I'm finished rambling.
Maybe to start we can split lynx-dev into 3 lists, lynx-users,
lynx-announce and lynx-dev. To set up two new mailing lists should be
much easier then creation of new newsgroup. If the lynx-users takes off
well and have a lot of trafic, it would be a good reason to create a
newsgroup.
--
Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
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www: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~lahvak/
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, (continued)
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Howard Kaikow, 1998/04/16
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, David Combs, 1998/04/16
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, David Combs, 1998/04/16
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Howard Kaikow, 1998/04/18
Re: Newsgroup ? (Was: Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions), Jan Hlavacek, 1998/04/18
Re: Newsgroup ? (Was: Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions), David Woolley, 1998/04/20
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, David Woolley, 1998/04/20
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, T.E.Dickey, 1998/04/16