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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaHiTech/ has over 100 members now
and it is growing at a rate of about 2-3 every week. It is an
unrestricted group with public archives - in other words non-members
can view messages in read-only mode, and membership is open to
everyone who wants to join.

I cannot tell if members are Canadian or not. Most of the members are
lurkers. I believe a couple of the people who participated in
discussions a while ago were American, but most active participants
are Canadians from Ottawa.

As far as creating a can.issues.hi-tech group, that would be great,
but I don't think it is possible. AFAIK there is no process in place
for starting a can.* group, so unless you know somebody who can do it,
you are out of luck.  However, I am crossposting this message to
can.config just in case.

Henrietta K. Thomas <hkt69@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<ugoj4vgrv8rj730rijcvqtgppbj2skts51@4ax.com>...
> On 10 Feb 2003 23:14:02 -0800, cx172@ncf.ca (Elat Lerner) wrote, 
> in us.issues.occupations.computer-programmers:
> 
> >Flavius Vespasianus <nl@nl.com> wrote in message news:<8jw1a.7609$tO2.748749@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> >> Henrietta K. Thomas <hkt69@earthlink.net> wrote in 
> >> news:92423vk4bpsoao4d4chkton0cgbehnt7mo@4ax.com:
> >> 
> >> > All of a sudden, just before the holidays, traffic stopped
> >> > coming in to this newsgroup.  Anybody want to tell me
> >> > what happened?
> >> 
> >> About that time the Programmers Guild set up yahoo groups.
> >
> >Now that is a real shame. Especially so since they have chosen to make
> >their yahoo group private and restricted and are not excepting new
> >memberships from the outside (I tried to join).
> 
> I guess you have to be a member of the Programmers Guild
> in order to get on the list.
> 
> >Funny they have chosen this route, while I am doing the exact opposite
> >- trying to move a yahoo group into usenet (so far with no success, 3
> >months and counting at ott.config ;-)
> 
> How many people on your Yahoo list?  Are they all Canadians?
> If so, have you ever thought of going to can.config and asking 
> for a national group?  
> 
> Henrietta