Subject: Re: I am creating alt.tv.twin-peaks.diary
From: mathews@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ryan D Mathews)
Date: 1990-11-17, 12:29
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,alt.config

In article <21653@beguine.UUCP> rslugg@uncmed.med.unc.edu () writes:
> >The traffic to alt.tv.twin-peaks is becoming huge, and a large part of this is
> >because of people posting excerpts from the diary.  The diary isn't helping,
> >it's pages can support any theory!  Please discuss excerpts from the super-
> >secret diary in alt.tv.twin-peaks.diary.

1) The largest amount of postings, IMHO, is still theories about
what's going on, not diary excerpts. That peakes a few weeks after it
was published.

2) Because you are just creating the group without giving any time at
all for discussion or comments, I sincerely doubt this group will get
much distribution.

3) Diary-readers do not form a clique of their own, apart from TP
fans. Do you expect people who comment on the diary to stay in your
new group (which I gather you're not even going to read yourself) and
not crosspost?

Summary: This group won't be carried much, and even where it is, I
doubt that many will use it.

---------- Ryan Mathews
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