Subject: Critical Mass

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 22:55:18 -0700

Pavel recently raised the question of whether we were reaching a critical
mass of the community networking community.  It has recently come to my
attention that there are several other mailing lists out there with a 
similar focus.  I'm currently trying to get more information on them, and
will post specifics as I learn them.  For now, I wanted to poll people on
the idea of cross-posting information between these mailing lists.  How
hard is it?  Under what circumstances is it useful?
Just to start things rolling, my opinion is that if a mailing list seems
close to ours in purpose, is willing, and has a managable amount of traffic,
we should try cross posting, and poll people about how it's working out
after a trial period.
-Carl

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 11:09:46 -0700

> we should try cross posting, and poll people about how it's working out

The `manageable amount of traffic' issue is important to me.  I tried
subscribing to COMMUNET for a while and got 65 messages in the first 20 hours,
after which I quit.  It wasn't that the content wasn't good, it was fine; it's
just too big a firehose for me to drink from part-time.

	Pavel