The others have discussed topics which perhaps are more relevant to the
other part of your original posting...
> The idea behind it is to make the newsgroup creation process, something
> most new readers of news.groups are less than fascinated by, less
> intimidating, while also reducing the amount of clueless behaviour people
> engage in. So we want people to read a whole lot of clues.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
However, this is the most telling. If the goal of your group is to
more fully educate your intended audience, then you should set the expectation
right away that there's a lot to read, and that after reading the large
volume of info, the reader will be better off than before.
> Well, we've got about 45K of clues total. This is a lot more than I, among
> others, think is reasonable. Some suggestions have been:
Okay, which do you want; 'a whole lot of clues' or a limited amount of info.
If the 'clues' that you have are all critical, then for goodness sakes make
it as easy for someone to read as possible. Why would someone go running
off hither and yon to look up dozens different documents, each of which is
a few thousand bytes long, to learn something that _someone else_ thinks
they should know before embarking on the 'adventure' of starting a new
newsgroup?
-- Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org <URL:http://www.teraform.com/%7Elvirden/> <*> O- "We are all Kosh." Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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