Newsgroup: bit.admin

In article <2935@stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>In article <Eo&6&b6@cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>#I'm going to be posting a checkgroups message about once a month in
>#bit.admin.  Next one in about a week, after the List of Gateways comes out.
[...]
>Finally, for people concerned with the volume, these have been the ten
>highest volume groups recently (as seen at this site):
>
>    7 days     Name
>----------     ----
> 172  354k     hellas
>  63  282k     ibmtcp-l
>  92  233k     christia
[...]
>I wonder if b.l.hellas could be merged with soc.culture.greek?
The two groups carry considerably different trafic.

The soc.culture.greek group contains discussions on Greek culture and
politics.  Most of the discussions are in English (with an war every so
often as to the language that should be used) and articles range from
Greek music, to how to make Greek coffee, to Greek history and the
Cyprus problem.  Many non Greek people participate to the forum usualy
asking questions.

Bit.listserv.hellas is read and written almost exclusively by Greeks.
The language is Greek by using a great variaty of transpositions of the
Greek character set into ASCII.  There are many more political
discussions and it also serves as a meeting point for Greeks (a sort of
`kafeneeo').  Messages of the form `I am looking for George
Papadopoulos who studies somewhere in Canada' are common.

I think merging the two groups would increase the noise of
soc.culure.greek considerably and would alianate all its non-Greek
readership.  I am sure there will also be considerable technical
problems.

[...]
>Most of the others look mergable too.       This would reduce the
>exclusively listserv volume considerably, and make the remaining
>traffic more acceptable to sites worried about volume.  
One thing that worries me is the trafic crossing the Atlantic twice.
It used to be the case (is it still?) that the cost of News in Europe
was dominated by the cost of the transatlantic conneciton.  Are the
bit.* newsgroups comming to Europe once over bitnet and once over
Usenet?

Regards, Diomidis
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