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From: Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Unofficial request: MX Linux.
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:36:49 EST
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Yevgeniy S and Linux wrote:
> Hello news.groups.proposals!
> 
> I am using MX-Linux. According to Distrowatch it is No. 2 Linux distro 
> in the world, just after Mint.
> 
> Would it make sense to make MX-Linux newsgroup? Say 
> comp.os.linux.mx-linux? Or rather other newsgroups are preferable?

The question is . . . who would use it?  Are there people who are active 
on UseNet who would post to an MX-Linux-specific newsgroup?  Or are 
their information needs already being met by existing sources?

My inclination is that there are already enough information sources, 
including comp.os.linux.misc, that a separate newsgroup for the variant 
is not going to fly.  The way to prove me wrong is to post in the 
existing newsgroup(s) and find actual examples of people who would use a 
new group.