On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> 2. Some people are a member of the gnhlug list due to technical issues
> and don't particularly care for the "friendly banter" that occurs
> thereon.
Some people need to lighten up. :-) Seriously, this is a user group, not a
help line. It is as much about the "friendly banter" as it is about helping
each other out. Okay, so occasionally a thread gets a little out-of-hand (the
Lame Name Flame Game thing, and more recently, the whole seatbelt/helmet law
debate), but that is going to happen regardless.
> I'd like to propose that we create a gnhlug-tech list. What do you
> think? I'd like it to be moderated, but we'll be needing moderator
> volunteers.
I think it would be redundant and needlessly repetitive. :) We'd also have
some people only sub'ed to one list, some only to another, and other forms of
confusion. It isn't like gnhlug@zk3 is a high-volume list.
Most importantly of all, drawing the line between "tech" and "not-tech" is
going to be near impossible. We're humans, not machines. :-)
> However, I suspect some people might be uncomfortable with having the
> site in a business.
I wouldn't care one bit. Someone's got to host it. If it's you, then
Codemeta is still hosting it, because Codemeta pays your bills. If we move it
to Joe Blow's house, then Joe Bloe's employer is hosting it. :-)
Meanwhile, bandwidth is a scarce commodity. :)
> News (NNTP) seems to be a better mechanism for what we're doing. I'm
> wondering if we shouldn't set up a news server on news.gnhlug.org that
> automatically cross-posts to the mailing lists (and have the
> mailing-list cross post to the news server).
<shrug> Six of one, half-dozen of the other. It's prolly worth doing
eventually, simply because some prefer news software for that sort of thing,
but I wouldn't put a big priority on it.
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Ben Scott
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