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Vladimir Vuksan <vuksan@unm.edu> wrote:
>
> I am proposing to put CROATIAN-NEWS and HRVATSKI-VJESNIK mailing list to 
> this newsgroup.
> 
> CROATIAN-NEWS is a mailing list that carries daily news from and related 
> to Croatia in English while HRVATSKI-VJESNIK carries daily news in Croatian.
> 

Why can these news items not be placed in soc.culture.croatia?
That newsgroup appears to carry a lot of articles related to
current affairs in Croatia.

Tony Killeen

> Please find a more meaningful name than "cronews". Perhaps you should have
> two separate newsgroups. How much traffic and how many subscribers do
> you have? An alternative would be to feed the stuff to the relevant
> soc.culture.* group if the volume is not very high and the subscribers 
> there don't object.

I agree. I thought about it and it would be better to name the 
Croatian mailing list in English to bit.listserv.croatia and the one in 
Croatian to bit.listserv.hrvatska.

Currently there are 530 subscribers on CROATIAN-NEWS and 460 on 
HRVATSKI-VJESNIK. The potential subscriber base is much larger since 
many Croatians do not know about existence of these mailing lists but 
know how to access USENET. I feel that this would significantly improve 
coverage and access. The traffic is about 70-80 kB per day for both 
mailing lists.

The problem with posting to soc.culture.croatia is that this group is a 
primarily discussion group about culture of Croatia and currently it is 
mostly used by Serbian propagandist to spread their propaganda. That is 
the reason why a lot of people are not reading it. Mostly people just 
want current news from Croatia, not propaganda and nasty and rude messages.

Thanks for your reply, I hope this answers all your questions.

Vladimir Vuksan
vuksan@unm.edu

On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Vladimir Vuksan wrote:

> Currently there are 530 subscribers on CROATIAN-NEWS and 460 on 
> HRVATSKI-VJESNIK. The potential subscriber base is much larger since 
> many Croatians do not know about existence of these mailing lists but 
> know how to access USENET. I feel that this would significantly improve 
> coverage and access. The traffic is about 70-80 kB per day for both 
> mailing lists.

I wasn't clear enough, I meant 70-80 kB in total for both lists, approx. 
10-20 for CROATIAN-NEWS and around 60 kB for HRVATSKI-VJESNIK.

Vladimir Vuksan
vuksan@unm.edu

<3knbmf$6mr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> from
Anthony Killeen <akilleen@umich.edu> saying:

> Why can these news items not be placed in soc.culture.croatia?
> That newsgroup appears to carry a lot of articles related to
> current affairs in Croatia.

As I said in my previous post, the group is filled with political discussions
which most of the people dislike. News articles from mailing lists are
posted occasionaly by me or by other people but it is not done on a continuous
basis which what most people want. I hope this answers you question.

Vladimir