Re: TI newsgroup active?

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Re: TI newsgroup active?

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:39:35 GMT, jonathanchum@mindspring.com
(Jonathan Chum) wrote:

>e96nbr@jordgubbe.efd.lth.se (Niklas Brunlid) wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:36:18 GMT, jonathanchum@mindspring.com
>>(Jonathan Chum) wrote:
>>
>>>I have subscribed to this newsgroup for over 4 months now and noticed
>>>something. This newsgroup isn't much active overall. There is only
>>>about 10 posts everyday while the Hp48 newsgroup(comp.sys.hp48) gets
>>>25-30 posts. Much of my teachers in High school and elementary uses
>>>TI's and the school even bought a classroom size full of TI-82's. Hp
>>>doesn't advertise much and haven't came out with a new calculator for
>>>4 years now. There cpu is 10 years old and slower than of TI's. On the
>>>Hp newgroup people post about assembly language problems and linking
>>>and rom dumping problems. They also post about upcoming programs
>>>that's gonna rock Hp48 world. Now on the TI side, there have a couple
>>>of post that doesn't even interest me one bit. Why is that? Is it that
>>>most people don't know that a TI group even exist therefore don't post
>>>about upcoming programs and other material that may interest people?
>>>
>>>Xanthis alias Jonathan Chum
>>
>>I think most of the programmers post on their calcs' respective
>>mailing lists on ticalc.org instead, like the Assembly-8x or
>>Assembly-92 lists. But then I don't know if the HP calcs have
>>something similar...
>>
>>
>>Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr

>I never did check out the Assembly lists at www.ticalc.org. I only
>found 3 newgroups and this was the most active, but I wished people
>would post to a newgroup than to a list server. Do you agree?

Yes and no. Usenet is great because you decide what articles you want
to read, mailing lists are great because they normally stay on-topic.
This is probably because it's easier to spam 1000 newsgroups than to
find that many mailing lists, plus the fact that mailing lists
normally won't let you post unless you're a subscriber.

But then there are mirrored newsgroups/mailing lists... perhaps you
could persuade the ticalc.org team into mirroring their mailing lists
onto newsgroups, but not the other way?


Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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