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Re: A new MISC forum?

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Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> writes:
> comp.language.forth.processor  Is that valid use on Usenet
> comp.lang ?  

I think it's hard to justify this regardless of whether it's a "type
error" to have a hardware subgroup under comp.lang.  An alt group would
be fine in principle but seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.

> a new misc processor should drive up numbers again.

I'd wait til the numbers actually go up, before trying to do anything
about it.

>  Maybe I should reach out further to get more people?

I don't think they are out there.  Aren't there some forums devoted to
the old Seaforth stuff?  They are very quiet.

> I agree, the traffic is just too low, but there must be many more out
> there.

That is possible, but I would want to see evidence before believing it.

> Having XYZ in ABC might discourage interest too.

Yeah, that's what I mean.  Across the history of Usenet, people have had
that idea over and over, and it's difficult to refute by pure logic.
It's just my observation from experience that despite many tries, it
never works.  Splitting off comp.lang.haskell from comp.lang.functional
was a recent example.  Instead of increasing total traffic, it just
split the existing trickle from c.l.f. so now there are two almost-dead
groups.  This is of course just my opinion, worth the $0.00 that you
paid for it, but I think the time to split a group is when the traffic
from the subtopic becomes unmanageably high, not when it's too small to
see.

> When I eventually release my open projects it might lead to people
> producing a lot of threads, especially if I can attach real hardware
> products to program.

That will be great, but until it happens I think we're getting ahead of
ourselves.  When I make a million dollars I might get a fancy car, but
there's no point to hanging around dealerships until the money is in the
bank.

> If anybody knows of good hosting/servicing for full custom web, and
> forum and blog, please let me know.

Maybe this helps:
 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/wordpress-cheap-vps-lowendscript/
 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

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A new MISC forum? ". ." <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-27 10:07 -0700
  Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-27 18:21 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-27 20:37 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-27 21:04 -0700
        Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 00:14 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 00:38 -0700
        Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-28 01:03 -0700
          Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 07:24 -0700
            Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-28 14:17 -0700
              Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 20:14 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-28 20:47 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 22:56 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 23:00 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-29 01:35 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 02:26 -0700
            Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 17:45 -0400
              ERROR ERROR t'was once [Re: A new MISC forum?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2013-04-28 17:53 -0500
                Re: ERROR ERROR t'was once [Re: A new MISC forum?] rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 16:34 -0400
              Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 21:07 -0700
  Re: A new MISC forum? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-27 22:51 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-27 23:55 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 17:53 -0400
      Re: A new MISC forum? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-28 15:24 -0700
        Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 22:29 -0700
          Re: A new MISC forum? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-01 18:33 -0700
            Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 21:23 -0700
              Re: A new MISC forum? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-01 22:14 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 00:12 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 12:51 -0400
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 00:40 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 17:51 -0400
                Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 00:49 -0700
                Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 11:31 -0400
            Re: A new MISC forum? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 09:40 -0700
              Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-03 00:17 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 00:23 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 18:01 -0400
        Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 21:28 -0700
  Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-28 23:16 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2013-04-29 07:48 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 19:40 -0700
      Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 19:40 -0700
  Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 19:32 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 11:39 -0400
      Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 08:57 -0700
  Re: A new MISC forum? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-05-06 23:24 -0700
    Re: A new MISC forum? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 10:17 -0400
    Re: A new MISC forum? Steve <nospam275@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 09:14 -0700
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