Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Net Llama!]

On 11/17/2004 05:37 PM, David Bandel wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
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>>>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.

Any possibility of you announcing the list in your Linux Journal column?


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