🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3e2rp1$bn3@umd5.umd.edu>,
Ram Samudrala <ram@elan1.carb.nist.gov> wrote:
>>mainly, because punk culture is a lot more than just music....
>
>Sounds like a decent reason to me.  I've had a few friends describe it
>to me and I'd be interested in reading about it.  So why not go ahead
>and newgroup it? 

The existence of a handful of people interested in starting
discussion of a particular topic is an excellent reason to 
create a mailing list devoted to that topic, or perhaps to 
begin a thread on an appropriate existing newsgroup to see if 
there is interest in its discussion. 

Newsgroups shouldn't, IMHO, be created in the hopes that it will
cultivate discussion on a topic that isn't currently getting any
discussion. The long-term result of this policy would likely
be a large number of newsgroups with effectively randomly selected
topics with no traffic in them. 

You could propose any topic and get at least a handful of people
who would say "yeah, I'd like to hear people talk about that",
but the best indicator of consistent future discussion is
consistent existing discussion.
-harry
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