Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <48udnWqjyMxuDAnOnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@giganews.com> <130620142106136918%invid@loclanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402772781 16746 166.84.1.5 (14 Jun 2014 19:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22901 comp.sys.mac.system:60932 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote, quoting Invid Fan : > > I am curious. What promotion have you done? > > Very little. [...] > > What blogs and mac news > > sites have mentioned your campaign? > > None, as far as I know. It may be that they see Usenet as a threat > to the user base of their own discussion forums. It may just be that > nobody particularly thinks Usenet is newsworthy any more. May be, or not. You need a public relations person, or education. Expecting anyone to discover what you're doing by finding it amidst these garbage-littered Usenet threads is doomed to failure. > I want *genuine* funding. See above. Then compare the number of people reading your couple of threads in this group with the total number of Usenet users. As for your sentiments about those "who don't actually care or intend to actually use Usenet," what happened to your vision of turning it it to yet another gigantic social network...? Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number