linux.debian.user 4708

You are not missing much. That mailing list is dominated by a small cabal of some of the worst spammers on the Internet.

The pros like Debian :-

No down payment, no interest, free beer.

Well, I've seen you on alt.os.linux.debian...We could put some effort into making that a good one...

Here's a list of the debian groups that Earthlink hosts (just hit the server for it):

alt.os.linux.debian! 1-13 cz.comp.linux.debian! 1-3389 it.comp.os.linux.debian! 1-42 linux.debian.68k! 1-101 linux.debian.admintool! 1-38 linux.debian.alpha! 1-109 linux.debian.announce! 1-213 linux.debian.autobuild! 1-26 linux.debian.beowulf! 1 linux.debian.bugs.closed! 1-88 linux.debian.bugs.dist! 1-198972 linux.debian.bugs.forwarded! 1-40 linux.debian.bugs.rc! 1-6371 linux.debian.bugs.reports! 1-33 linux.debian.changes! 1-1287 linux.debian.changes.devel! 1 linux.debian.consultants! 1-558 linux.debian.curiosa! 1 linux.debian.devel! 1-151161 linux.debian.devel.announce! 1-51 linux.debian.devel.changes! 1-55233 linux.debian.devel.italian! 1 linux.debian.devel.mentors! 1 linux.debian.devel.qa! 1 linux.debian.devel.release! 1-2 linux.debian.devel.spanish! 1 linux.debian.devel.testing! 1 linux.debian.doc! 1-3253 linux.debian.faq! 1-60 linux.debian.french! 1-462 linux.debian.i18n! 1-54 linux.debian.italian! 1-70 linux.debian.l10n.finnish! 1 linux.debian.l10n.french! 1 linux.debian.l10n.german! 1 linux.debian.l10n.polish! 1 linux.debian.l10n.portuguese! 1 linux.debian.l10n.spanish! 1 linux.debian.l10n.turkish! 1 linux.debian.laptop! 1 linux.debian.legal! 1 linux.debian.maint.boot! 1 linux.debian.maint.dpkg! 1 linux.debian.maint.emacsen! 1 linux.debian.maint.firewall! 1 linux.debian.maint.glibc! 1 linux.debian.maint.gtk.gnome! 1 linux.debian.maint.hams! 1 linux.debian.maint.i18n! 1 linux.debian.maint.ipv6! 1 linux.debian.maint.java! 1 linux.debian.maint.jr! 1 linux.debian.maint.kde! 1 linux.debian.maint.ocaml.maint! 1 linux.debian.maint.perl! 1 linux.debian.maint.pilot! 1 linux.debian.maint.python! 1 linux.debian.maint.sgml! 1 linux.debian.maint.tetex! 1 linux.debian.maint.x! 1 linux.debian.news! 1 linux.debian.news.french! 1 linux.debian.news.german! 1 linux.debian.news.portuguese! 1 linux.debian.policy! 1-4491 linux.debian.ports.ia64! 1 linux.debian.ports.mips! 1 linux.debian.ports.powerpc! 1 linux.debian.ports.s390! 1 linux.debian.ports.sparc! 1 linux.debian.ports.superh! 1 linux.debian.ports.x86-64! 1 linux.debian.powerpc! 1-80 linux.debian.project! 1 linux.debian.publicity! 1-141 linux.debian.qa! 1-72 linux.debian.security! 1 linux.debian.spanish! 1-197 linux.debian.sparc! 1-87 linux.debian.user! 1-257247 linux.debian.user.catalan! 1 linux.debian.user.chinese.big5! 1 linux.debian.user.danish! 1 linux.debian.user.french! 1 linux.debian.user.german! 1 linux.debian.user.italian! 1 linux.debian.user.japanese! 1 linux.debian.user.polish! 1 linux.debian.user.portuguese! 1 linux.debian.user.russian! 1 linux.debian.user.spanish! 1 linux.debian.user.swedish! 1 linux.debian.user.turkish! 1 linux.debian.user.ukrainian! 1 linux.debian.vote! 1 linux.debian.www! 1-9789 linux.dev.debian! 1-201 muc.lists.debian.announce! 1 muc.lists.debian.user! 1 muc.lists.debian.user-de! 1

Not very promising...

Later,

AC