Posted by John Dunlop on 05/19/06 19:17

Erwin Moller:

> Does anybody know why we have so many PHP related NG's?
> (php.general, alt.php to name a few)

[...]

> I am curious if anybody has thoughts about this.

Like you, Erwin, I'm only subscribed to c.l.php. Believe it or not,
my ISP carries alt.php and alt.comp.lang.php but not c.l.php!
Exception to the rule, I reckon.

I chose c.l.php over the others because my impression was that
c.l.php had the most traffic and because it was the one in the comp.*
hierarchy, one of the so-called Big-8 hierarchies.

I think the most noticeable problem with having more than one
newsgroup covering the same topic is multiposting, although I don't see
a problem with crossposting to the three newsgroups, alt.php,
alt.comp.lang.php and c.l.php. Not sure if the alt.* newsgroups have
contributors that c.l.php doesn't have.

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Jock

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