Over the hills and far away in alt.tv.malcolm-in-themiddle, Mediajock came
to play...
> "Eddie Bernard" <spambox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote in message
>
news:Xns93EA54DF4832Cofficialpostofeddieb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> d.co.oook...
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I've recently got this group added to a couple of servers, most notably
>> "the German server" posted through by around 20% of people on Usenet
>> (news.cis.dfn.de). It has such bad propagation and no one really knows
>> it exists. I only found it by a chance discovery. Let's try to change
>> that.
>>
>> This group is worth a go at trying to encourage people to post to it,
>> but unfortunately we won't get many while so few people have access.
>>
>> I will be asking friends in the coming weeks to ask their ISPs to add
>> this group. The more the better. I hope other people will be able to do
>> the same, then at least we can say we tried. I'm sure there are a lot
>> of fans of this superb sitcom out there.
>
> I had discovered this group only a few months ago (and the hard way too
> - interestingly enough, I went to alt.config to try to have it created)
> and was surprised to discover it was created around February 2001 with
> no activity. (Apparently the creator of the control file didn't follow
> up on getting servers to cooperate.)
Indeed. Quite disappointing as well as it actually got through a proposal
process on alt.config with no pain whatsoever. Not that it usually means
much any more, but the original creator might have done well to stick
around for a bit and see their hard work through.
> Anyway, I have sent Google 2 different emails attempting to get them to
> add the group - so far they have not. Maybe additional emails from
> other users would improve the odds. Since it is sort of the "mother" of
> all Usenet sites, getting listed on Google would be a major step toward
> group exposure, since the search capabilities are there.
It often takes a long time to get a group onto Google, but it is doable. I
e-mailed them when they first took over the archives and it took them a
month or so to add the group I asked for. They might be inclined to add
the group now there's been a bit of activity lately.
I'll drop them an e-mail. I can't stress how im****tant it is to get
propagation, and since no one has ever really bothered to do so with this
group, it wouldn't be wise to dismiss it as useless just yet.
Getting ISPs on board is just as im****tant though.
It's good to know I'm not the only the Malcolm in the Middle fan out
there. Despite its success in the USA, it's not done so well here in the
UK - primarily because it's badly scheduled and often thought of as a
children's programme. Not so :-)
Cheers,
Eddie
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