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Re: Outside traffic [was: Another resignation]
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:47:08 GMT
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:37:08PM +0000, Suz wrote:
> Any thoughts on carrying feeds of that traffic into their respective
> LUGNET newsgroups? I'm not sure why those folks went their own way,
> but I respect it. However, in keeping with LUGNET's purpose, there's a
> lot to say for centralization of the viewability of, or consciousness
> of, AFOL activity. I think it'd be nice to cross-communicate - even if
> it's just to allow newcomers to see the outside traffic volume and a
> synopsis of that group's purpose/characteristics (assuming the outside
> groups didn't want posts to come from LUGNET).
It shouldn't be hard to imlpement, from a technical point of view. Need
to keep in mind though, that posts coming in won't be authenticated like
LUGNET posts are - but we could just mark them like we do the robotics
list...
I think it would make sense to import these feeds in two ways. One,
in their own trees, (classic-space.general, etc), and the other as
subgroups of related NGs (lugnet.space.classic-space).
Would something like that work? Of course, the other sites need to
agree before anything can be worked on...
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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 | | Re: Outside traffic [was: Another resignation]
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| (...) Instead of a number of top-level, one-ng trees, how about clustering these feeds under a single 'external sources' group. Something like lugnet.external-feed...sic-space? Or lugnet.loc.external....ass-space? (...) I'm not sure about pulling a (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Growth can be defined many ways. One way is number of posts (which -has- dropped from what it was four years ago). But then, those posters may have become more concise in their messages. And perhaps individual groups, like robotics, have (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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