Roger Whittaker did ponder briefly and then scribed, On Mon, 10 Jul 2000:
Very few people are subscribed to this list apart from people in schools who are running Linux. There are a few and they are mostly LUG people who've offered to listen in and answer the odd question.
I think the real question is how people can preach to the unconverted through other channels which are available to them (eg their contacts with LEA advisors, their membership of RM and other mailing lists, their contacts with colleagues in other institutions etc)
Well, there are a few of us posting to uk.education.schools-it, Philip and James being the two most often posters besides myself. We may be making a bit of progress, I've been slapped down by educational users of M$ Office 2K for saying I didn't like it. Suppose M$ must be like toothache, so long as you don't realise its there, it doesn't hurt. :-) I've managed to get 2 other teachers to try. 1 is just about over the worst hump now, he's got his modem and display sorted out. He's using Mandrake 7.0. I'm working on converting him to SuSE ;-) And the other's gone strangely silent - guess he hasn't managed to get his modem working yet. Still, we'll get there. eventually. We just have to keep plugging away. -- paul hornshaw