 | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | I'm not against it, but do we have critical mass yet? Also, what problem is it trying to solve? Is trains too noisy already (I can't tell since I'm part of the noise) or are you thinking ahead? (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Matthew Bates
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| | | | (...) I'm not against it either but I think if club related stuff were off in another group then I'd probably never read it since I'm not in any club. And that would remove a possible incentive to get me interested in joining/starting/attending a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) Hrmm. I could see where that would be convenient for the clubs themselves with spelled-out geographical description to avoid the alphabet soup for newbies. IMO, if you start .trains.org you might want to consider which groups could also have (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) Okay, I'm a dufis. Shoulda read further back in the thread. Sorry about the waste. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | Larry Pieniazek: (...) Difficult to tell, but critical mass isn't much of a metric here as it is on Usenet, mainly because groups are archived and easily past-browseable and because it is so easy to create new groups and receive them as mailing (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) specific and are very roundtablish. What about other groups, such as the San Francisco Bay Area group baylug.org? As you know, we have a domain name now. Zonker Harris seems to want to form a LTC here in SF, which is good and could be it's own (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —David K. Z. Harris
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| | | | | | | | Tom McDonald wrote (in part); (...) Boy, I turn my back for a week, and look what goes on! (Just kidding! ;-) I like the BA-LEGO email list, which is also automatically (email) linked to the lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf groups list. (Though I don't know for (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) I hope I didn't cause any heart attacks or spasms by mentioning things like lugnet.trains.org.pnltc and lugnet.x.y.z.baylug -- these were just mentioned as examples for the sake of planning. I understand that pnltc.org and baylug.org folks are (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | (...) It was never my intention to speak for anyone other than myself alone. I merely used bayLUG as an example too. I can tell by your posts that you don't seem to think I spoke presumptously or authoritatively, but I'm saying it just for the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Dan Parker
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| | | | | | | | Todd, once again, the wisdom of the train NG prophets shines through like a Mack truck careening through a wall of stacked Ritvik Mega Blocks -- Offline conversation with Steve B. last week and and the number of posts I've reviewed have got me (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Well... you know... when you know four times as much about the topic as the next most frequent poster, that happens. <grins, ducks and runs> (...) Shocked, just shocked. (...) I guess that would work. IF people remembered to do it (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: lugnet.trains.org newsgroup? —David Graham
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| | | | (...) I agree with Matt David (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.trains)
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