Re: CSA2 needs, normalness, and expansion

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> "William Girnius" <thedm@sunflower.com> wrote:
> 
>>My two cents.
 ....

>>would invite you all to look at the cbm group, or the sinclair group, >>or the atari8 group, or the atari st group, to see what a "normal" >>newsgroup technical forum looks like.
 ....

> I agree.  Sadly, you'll have a hard time making csa2 look like cscbm.
> They have many times the users, so they have a higher signal to noise
> ratio.

     A check of posts over a five day (Wed-Sun) period last week shows
254 posts to Cscbm and 287 to Csa2. Also, Cscbm has no .Programmer,
.Usergroups, .Comm, .Gno, or .Marketplace subgroups.


     Actually, perhaps we should consider integrating .Programmer,
.Usergroups, and .Comm into Csa2 main. The combined daily traffic on the
three subgroups seems to average around just 10 posts and, really, their
content is of general interest. Since many users subscribe to just Csa2
main, everyone would benefit.


> 
> I've given up trying to make it look normal...

     Your info-packed postings have helped to make Csa2 very un-normal!
If you want to see "normal", check out some PC groups and see how often
users get solid answers.


> I just ignore most of the
> stuff...

     You may be missing some interesting input-- for instance, the
postings in the "You are Here! So: How did you get into Apple II
Computing?" thread.


 
Rubywand