New newsgroup for Debian users
Hi
Had to reveal my email address for this post, but I
guess its ok if this new newsgroup takes off and opens
up a choice for Debian users.
Following positive response in comp.os.linux.misc and
generally supportive response in alt.config, I have
created the first unmoderated newsgroup for
Debian GNU Linux - alt.os.linux.debian by sending out
the control message.
Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your
favorite news server by requesting them to carry it.
Let us get it started.
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CHARTER:
For questions and answers relating to the installation
and use of different flavors of Debian GNU Linux
(stable, testing, unstable and other derivant
distributions). The newsgroup will be unmoderated.
JUSTIFICATION:
Debian GNU Linux is one of the most popular Linux
distributions (consistently ranked in the top 5-6
distros -
http://www.distrowatch.org/stats.php?section=popularity
). Its user base probably numbers in millions
worldwide. The largest number of derivant
Linux distributions are based on Debian (97 -
http://www.distrowatch.org/stats.php?section=independence
). A survey of available Debian newsgroups on
groups.google.com reveals that there are no
unmoderated newsgroups available specifically for
Debian GNU Linux. The newsgroups in the linux.debian.*
hierarchy are all moderated and are linked to mailing
lists via a mail to news gateway, and hence require a
valid email address for users to even post their
queries. Though these lists have heavy traffic, a
large number of Debian related posts end up on the
comp.os.linux.* hierarchy every day. These newsgroups
(under comp) are not specifically geared towards
Debian and people often get incomplete advice for
their problems.Over the past one year, the number of
users
using Debian and derivant distributions like Knoppix
has steadily risen partially due to its highly evolved
package management system and the discontinuation of
the personal version of Red Hat Linux. Thus, creation
of this newsgroup would at once be timely and
extremely well received.
In this age of spammers harvesting email addresses
from newsgroups and mailing lists (such as
linux.debian.*), with spam rising to above 60 % of
total email traffic
(http://www.brightmail.com/spamstats.html), ability
to use spam.invalid style addresses in unmoderated
genuine newsgroups can help in alleviating this problem.
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