On Sat, 30 May 1998, Andrew Davie wrote:
> Noting the absence of traffic on the above newsgroup, I thought it would be
> a good idea for items from the mailing list to be posted there, too. Any
> objectors / volunteers?
> I think we could draw in one or two coding geniuses :)
The thing is, it's such a small club, I'd assume most anyone who wants to
program for the VCS has already subscribed, so why go elsewhere? --and if
you go, you'll just bump into the same posters, so isn't it a duplication
of effort?
(I see the same phenomenon with the Video Toaster mailing list vs. the
newsgroup.)
Stella gains new subscribers at an average rate of 3-5 people a week and
has well over a hundred members.
I'm not sure where they are finding out about it, but the list has been
around long enough to gain a reputation, which is great.
I think a mailing list is well suited for this kind of niche
subjectmatter, and biglist's threaded HTML archive is very nice. I don't
even have to archive Stella messages locally because of this.
If all news-servers carried the newsgroup I might be convinced to shut
down stella and encourage people to switch over, but until then, I'd
suggest people stay here for the sake of unifying the discussions.
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