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Re: Next NYCLUG Meeting -- Saturday, October 2nd
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:14:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Sid Dinsay wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
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In lugnet.announce, Sid Dinsay wrote:
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OKAY: Let’s try this again. Please highlight this on LUGNET!!!
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Um, I hate to be picky, but for future reference...
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Um, is the sarcasm really necessary?
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Wow, I hope you didn’t take genuine offense at that. My apologies if so. I
seriously wan’t trying to be sarcastic or anything-- I’m not really even that
annoyed that you asked that it be highlighted. I just wanted to point out that
highlighting probably isn’t (IMHO) the way to go, since I’d prefer not to see
local LUG meetings filling up the sidebar. I added that first bit because I
didn’t want to sound like I was giving you a dictate, because, clearly, I’m in
no position to do so.
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David: I guess you have no problem with anyone else promoting their private
enterprises -- AuctionBrick for instance -- and for that matter, other local
LUG events, such as, say, the NW BrickCon contests? Didn’t realize that
NYCLUG was so, um, threatening to you.
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Well, I’m all for these events being highlighted when they’re applicable to the
more general Lugnet population. AuctionBrick is clearly something that everyone
might be interested in, and NWBrickCon is something that everyone’s invited to.
Ditto BrickFest, BrickFest PDX, etc. From what I could see, this looks like it’s
really only applicable to people in the NYC area.
When it’s pictures from an event or a meeting, it’s of more general interest
since everyone can check out pictures of cool MOC’s, etc. Same thing if someone
had some sort of cool idea or story or whatnot at a meeting that other people
might be interested in hearing.
Again, as I said, I don’t know if there’s something special going on at the
meeting; maybe you’re doing something that really IS of general interest and I
don’t know about it, but to read what you posted it seemed more like something
to let people in the area know about the meeting, and less like something that
appeals to the more general LUGNET audience.
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I’ll be honest: NYCLUG is a relatively new creature in the LUG world, and
we’re trying to maximize exposure for it. Highlighting seems to do the
trick. Once we get more members, we’ll crawl back into our little hole and
never bother you again. ;-)
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If you’re announcing or promoting a new club, that’s actually perfectly fine in
my book-- It’s the more mundane meeting announcements I’d like to avoid. I’d
hate to see the sidebar populated by LUG meeting announcements. I don’t know how
frequently they happen throughout the world, but in NELUG we have them about
every month. So with 30+ LUGs around the world (rough guess), it’d make for
quite a lot of posts.
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As for the “why should the rest of us care?” argument -- you can say the same
thing about any other post. Think every single AFOL wants to argue about
colors? You’d think so by reading the Top Stories, eh?
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That’s another reason I posted to admin.general-- I know it’s been discussed
before (and recently with the color debate and BrickLink store closings), but
having skip filter settings for the top stories would be pretty keen, and would
vastly help things like this. Obviously there’s people that WANT to read the
color debate, etc, and those that adamantly DON’T. Keeping LUGNET tailored a bit
more to what you want would definitely help.
Hmmm... how about if you could give “automatic spotlights” to people or
newsgroups you like? That’d be pretty neat as well-- I know I’ve missed stuff
that’s been posted to my local area groups since we usually post to our NELUG
mailing list. Might help to have an automatic ‘hey, check this out!’ on the
website (I know you can sorta do the same thing with subscribing via email to
certain NG’s, but bleah-- I hate getting MORE email).
Anyway, it’s certainly not on the high priority list for Lugnet, but it would be
pretty cool.
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Hoping this ends the argument. Let’s all be Lego friends. :-)
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Heck, I’m sorry you thought it was an argument to begin with! Who knows, if
you’re in the NYC area, you’re actually not terribly far from us up here in
NELUG-- maybe we’ll have some crossover events sometime :)
DaveE
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hey Dave -- we're cool. Sorry about the little blowup on my part. Were you at the build event in Enfield last month, where we built those bugs? We may have even met. ;-) Looking forward to doing something with NELUG soon -- maybe after the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) Um, is the sarcasm really necessary? I have now figured out that LUGNET's "organizations" group is the way to go for these announcements. Sorry that we appeared to have, um, bothered you so much. David: I guess you have no problem with anyone (...) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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