Post by Emanuel BergPost by X. X. SputnikI need to find a newsgroup about newsgroup!
Where I can tell my topic and get an answer in which newsgroup I should ask?
I now need a newsgroup about how to watch CNN in Russia. I
asked in alt.os.linux.ubuntu - maybe they know there - but no
answer, and they didn't pointed me to a newsgroup where to ask
as well. So I ask here. I think that is a serious
question. Agree? (Should exist something like news.groups or
alt.news.groups but with much more people!)
Gospodin Sputnik, I know exactly how you feel. I've wondered the
same thing - "where do I post *this*?" - countless of times, and
the best practice I've come up with is just post it where you
think it may fit (state several groups, to widen the fish net),
and see what happens. Not really the scientific way, I know.
So thumbs up, great question.
And great answer too!
I sometimes create newsgroups.
I created comp.mobile.android recently.
Everyone were telling me in the previous years were no posts ontopic.
But... I found 3 in last 3 years, 2 of which were asking where to post
about Android OS / devices, created newsgroup, and now everyday someone
posts there.
Some people think I'm mad because I still think that I want to post and
no one knows the newsgroup, I think I can create newsgroup if I think
the topic is popular to more than just me - like e.g. Fedora.
(Created Fedora newsgroup recently.)
Problem is - for newsgroup to be accepted quickly it must be a Big-8
newsgroup these days, and you need to prove them first that there are
people who are already posting about the topic of newsgroup.
Issue is that no one posted anything just because were no newsgroup, and
person simply went to World Wide Web.
I understand that creating newsgroups is restricted because removing
them is a pain - but what to do? Wait while UseNet will die because
there is no place to post about my topic?
Recently I wanted to ask how to watch CNN in Russia cheap through the
Internet and better using GNU/Linux PC.
Everyone told me I'm idiot because I posted to alt.os.linux.ubuntu so
many times that they better given me answer that no one here knows. And
no one even tried to point me to good newsgroup which I asked, too!
I'm saying it again, because thread become big, I was called troll, and
I thought someone using Ubuntu may watch TV, sometimes foreign channels,
sometimes from "bad" countries like Russia or China. Finally, Ubuntu's
philosophy is humanity - or used to be?
In theory there is newsgroup news.groups, everyone should be subscribed
to it and talk there about newsgroups, promote newsgroups, ask which
newsgroup is suitable for what, you understand. BUT NO ONE DOES!
There is also news.misc.
To post everything that is offtopic to any other already existing
newsgroups.
I think you can check how news.misc is popular using your newsreader.
Maybe we need a new book, Big Faq about UseNet for everyone to know and
read about such small things? Maybe I should write it? I don't know.
But it must be so good e - book that it would be shameful for everyone
not to read it before posting anything to UseNet or even reading it.
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