CFD: comp.lang.tcl
Karl Lehenbauer
STATUS: unmoderated
CHARTER:
comp.lang.tcl will be a forum for the users of the Tcl
programming language, invented by Dr. John Ousterhout
of the University of California at Berkeley.
(A new release, Tcl version 6.0, is available by anonymous
FTP from sprite.berkeley.edu and will soon be posted to
comp.sources.misc)
WHY:
There are currently two Tcl mailing lists comprising over 310 entries,
including numerous mailing list exploders, so the real reader total is
probably over 400.
With the new release of Tcl merging Tcl and Extended Tcl, applications
containing embedded Tcl interpreters such as Don Libes' "expect", and a
forthcoming new release of the Tk Tcl-based toolkit for X-windows, Tcl
is attracting ever-greater interest and gaining new users daily.
With this number of entries, the mailing lists are becoming strained. Also,
Tcl will achieve a wider audience through a newsgroup.
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Richard H. Miller
>
> There are currently two Tcl mailing lists comprising over 310 entries,
> including numerous mailing list exploders, so the real reader total is
> probably over 400.
How much traffic is generated on the mailing list. How many messages/day
or message/month would be appreciated.
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Peter da Silva
> In article <1991Oct02.0...@One.NeoSoft.com>, ka...@One.NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> > There are currently two Tcl mailing lists comprising over 310 entries,
> > including numerous mailing list exploders, so the real reader total is
> > probably over 400.
> How much traffic is generated on the mailing list. How many messages/day
> or message/month would be appreciated.
What does that have to do with it? Volume is not a measure of the value
of a group... quite the contrary. Look at alt.sex.pictures for a
counterexample.
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Richard H. Miller
>
> What does that have to do with it? Volume is not a measure of the value
> of a group... quite the contrary. Look at alt.sex.pictures for a
> counterexample.
But is does have quite a bit to do if the group should be created in the
mainstream groups. If there is one message/day or something very low, then
a mailing list is the appropriate medium [or comp.lang.misc since this
volume would not overwhelm the group.]. If there is not any volume then
we should not create the group.
David Fox
Peter da Silva
> > What does that have to do with it? Volume is not a measure of the value
> > of a group... quite the contrary. Look at alt.sex.pictures for a
> > counterexample.
> But is does have quite a bit to do if the group should be created in the
> mainstream groups.
I'm *talking* about the mainstream groups, here (and if you want to object
that alt.sex.pictures isn't in the mainstream, change the example to something
like talk.origins). The volume of a group is not relevant, simply the
readership. If there's one message a day shipped through a mailing list,
with hundreds of redundant copies going through the net, it would be simply
more efficient to make it a newsgroup than a mailing list.
Plus, there is occasional discussion of the language all over the place,
as people bring up "expect" and other TCL-based applications. While the
existing volume may be low (and it may not be... I'm only in one of the
lists) I believe there is a large enough interest and readership to
justify the group, as there is for other lower volume groups (such as,
for example, comp.os.rsts).