Re: [OT] Recent increases in d-u posts?
The last Mandrake install I did ticked me off. Potato was just released and I
thought I'd give it a try. Have since made Debian my permanent distribution
of choice.
dar
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase
> in posts in the last few weeks. It seems that, not that long ago, I'd be
> lucky to get over 100 in a single day. These days it seems to be
> regularly over 200.
>
> It's a bit weird, because it's not as if there are any really long
> threads or flame wars. There doesn't seem to have been a noticable
> change in the sorts of things that have been posted (with the exception,
> maybe, that there seem to be a lot of XFree 4-related posts (and also
> the recent Dr Kroger thing, but that was relatively minor)).
>
> I'm not suggesting splitting the lists, or that newbies should go away,
> or anything like that. I'm just wondering if anyone else has any
> thoughts on the phenomenon. Maybe it's just beacue people are ćxpecting
> to have time off over christmas where they can work out this linux
> thing.
>
> cheers,
>
> damon
>
>
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