Post by Yevgeniy S and LinuxHello alt.os.linux.ubuntu!
Does anyone knows if there is a newsgroup devoted to MX Linux?
I need one because I use MXLinux i386.
In this thread, they discuss some options.
The question was asked in the alt.os.linux.debian group.
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.linux.debian/c/dF6F9iYfCRU
alt.os.linux
comp.os.linux.misc
alt.os.linux.debian <=== doing it here, would be squatting
If every Debian-related group, posted in alt.os.linux.debian ,
it would be anarchy. The other two groups, are more general purpose.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
I would agree the situation is not ideal. But if you look at the
groups created for distros, there are only about sixteen of them,
while there are five hundred Linux distros, and it is not
practical for groups to be created for all of them.
If an administrator discovers a low level of traffic in an alt.*
group, it can be removed by the administrator. At one time,
the alt.* hierarchy had 100,000 groups in it, many had no traffic
(except spam) and during the "Great Cleanup", many of those
were removed. For example, the group
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork
no longer exists. At one time, it had traffic, and it was
related to a television program. But the group is gone now,
as one of the transient-type groups.
Paul