Subj : Re: Newsgroup gating.
To   : All
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Tue Feb 02 2016 21:43:24

 Wv>  JD> Why are we suddenly being flooded with Newsgroup postings?  Personall
 Wv>  JD> I am not a fan of that.  A seperate echo for that sort of stuff might
 Wv>  JD> be better served I think.  Any thoughts?

Hi Joe.

The recently resurrected Fidonet echoarea X-FILES (dormant since 2006) is
linked to alt.tv.x-files so as to connect the few people in Fidonet interested
in the TV show with a corrosponding few people in the Usenet newsgroup. It
allows everyone to discuss their common topic of interest.

The 'flood' as you put it was approximately 40 messages dating back to November
2015. That's not really a big number for three months worth of postings. And
compare that to the 18 messages generated in Fidonet for period since the
echoarea was restarted over the same time period. These are hardly big
numbers IMHO.

I imagine there will be burts of activity as folks post about the next several
episodes as they air - all good on-topic stuff. Feel free to join in the
conversation about X-Files if you would like to do so. If you don't want to,
that's your choice also.

Best, Paul

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