Re: Stop posting?

Rich Kulawiec (rsk@itw.com)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:14:08 -0500 (EST)

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>With the WWW there certainly is *less* of a need to keep posting, but are
>there still people with just usenet access (I'm ignoring the possibility
>of FTP, etc) who would consider it better to keep posting than to not? Or
>should I take the few complaints (3 in 2 years, but can guess it may get
>to be more often) to heart?

From reading the studies that the folks down in Texas (Quarterman et.al.)
keep doing on how many people, hosts, etc. are connected to the Internet,
and how they're connected, I think that sending the FAQs down the same
communications channel as the news articles is still the right thing to do.
There are a lot of people who are either (1) connected via things like UUCP
or (2) connected via TCP/IP, but firewalled off without HTTP proxies or under
other restrictions, who can't get the FAQs any other way than Usenet news.

I've had a couple of requests to stop posting over the last 5-6 years, but
I figure the FAQs are a tiny, tiny percentage of overall traffic -- and since
their "Subject" headers are rather static, it's easy for those who wish to
screen them out to do so.

Cheers,
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@itw.com

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