Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Robert Hemus]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:28, David Bandel wrote:
> 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
Weren't most of us refugees from the Caldera site?  When I signed up for
it in about '98 or so, seems like I was the only newbie.  Not too much
more now.  Still the best place I've found to learn anything, even most
of the posts are above my head.
Bob