Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:17:33 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'd been giving that some thought for a while.  The list has dwindled
to less than 200 users, most of whom have been on this list since dirt
was young.  How do we get more newbies (before this list, along with
its users, dies of old age)?

I might have suggested a plug on Linux and Main, but ...

David A. Bandel
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