Followup: Cataloguing Solaris groups

From: Eric Boutilier (bout_at_central.sun.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:00:04 -0600
To: solarisx86@yahoogroups.com

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>
> I created an OPML file of major Solaris discussion groups
> that provide RSS feeds. It can be downloaded here:
>
> http://www.speakeasy.org/~boutilier/import.xml
>
> (An OPML file is a standard file format for sharing lists of RSS
> feeds such as BLOGs. More on this later.)
>
> This is part of my attempt to start maintaining a list of
> "active" English-language Solaris groups and their attributes. I've
> defined "active" to mean groups that have, on average, at least a few
> messages posted per day (i.e. minimum 20 msgs per week). Following
> are the ones I know of. Please let me know if I've missed any.
>
> Name Traffic Native Format RSS Feed?
> ---- ------- ------------ ---------
> comp.unix.solaris Very high Usenet Newsgroup Yes
> solarisx86@yahoo High Mail-list Yes
> sunmanagers.org Med Mail-list Yes
> supportforum.sun.com Med Browser-only Yes
> forum.sun.com Med Browser-only Soon
> ITtoolbox solaris-l Low Mail-list No
>
> Key:
> Very high ~= 500 - 700 msgs per week
> High ~= 300 - 500 "
> Medium ~= 100 - 300 "
> Low ~= 20 - 100 "
>
> Although there are 6 groups in the list above, two of them don't
> provide RSS feeds yet, therefore they aren't included in the
> OPML file. Also, one of the RSS feeds in the file is not actually
> a discussion group, it's a site that does on-the-fly aggregation of
> blog entries on planetsun.org that contain the word Solaris. (The URL
> for browsing the site is http://test.planetsun.com/solaris.)
>
> <Run-on message alert>
> The rest of this message contains some findings,
> recommendations, and how-to info on the subject of RSS/OPML.
> </Run-on message alert>
>
> [ Text deleted ]
> ...

Thanks to some helpful feedback, here's a new expanded version of
the Solaris groups table.

To download the corresponding OPML file (8 feeds), go here:
  http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/eric_boutilier/solgroups.opml
(Tip: Use right-click to download rather than view.)

Please advise of any corrections or improvemenets.

Eric

----- ------- ------------- ---------
Name Traffic Native Format RSS Feed?
----- ------- ------------- ---------
comp.unix.solaris Very high Usenet group Yes
solarisx86@yahoo High Mail-list Yes
sunmanagers.org Med Mail-list Yes
comp.sys.sun.hardware Med Usenet group Yes
supportforum.sun.com Med Browser-only Yes
forum.sun.com Med Browser-only Soon
comp.sys.sun.admin Low Usenet group Yes
alt.solaris.x86 Low Usenet group Yes
Solaris_fr (x86.sun.com) Low Mail-list No
ITtoolbox solaris-l Low Mail-list No

Key:
  Very high ~= 500 - 700 msgs per week
  High ~= 300 - 500 "
  Medium ~= 100 - 300 "
  Low ~= 20 - 100 "

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