Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

Net Llama! netllama
Wed Nov 17 17:17:37 PST 2004


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:41:14 -0500, Brad De Vries <devriesbj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There was a time when this list had some serious power.  Today it
> > seems to be dead.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Here we go again. Have you checked the archives for recent threads on
> this very topic?
>
> In the old days (Caldera), it was a struggle to get almost any package
> or piece of hardware working, so there was a lot of traffic. Now, with
> debian, slackware, fedora, gentoo, etc. most everything works, and
> thus the traffic volume is low.

I don't know how much I can agree with that.  Hvae you looked at the
volume of the Fedora users list?  Its got a few hundred messages/day.

I'm more inclined to say that this list is quiet because there isn't much
new blood here.

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