Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:43:56 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, David Bandel wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:17:33 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
> > <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 ...
> 
> I'm not really sure how.  A while back Doug was thinking of actually
> posting banner ads on some of the OSD^H^H^TG sites to advertise the SxS,
> but  unless osomeone is feeling generous, i don't think its worth spending
> money on advertising.
> 

I was more thinking of what we could do for free.  We had lots of
folks come from the Caldera list, but few new folks have come because
this isn't a "distro" list.  So folks don't hear about us.  In fact,
I'd call this list the best kept secret on the Internet.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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