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Re: The name/purpose of the QOTD group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 5 May 1999 17:19:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, galliard@shades-of-night.com (James Brown) writes:
> > > [...]
> > > Thoughts? Is this group, by its very name, no matter how carefully worded
> > > in the charter, doomed and destined to being destroyed and recreated under
> > > a different name, or not at all? Once something like this gets going (if
> > > it does), these sorts of community QOTD resources can be quite a lot of
fun.
Sorry to have infected it. Better kill it before it multiplies.
> > I think it is a naming thing. When I first see "QOTD" it interprets as
> > "somewhere to put cool quotes I heard" without any accompanying "on LUGnet • or
> > RTL" being intuited by my brain. • <snip>
> It's interesting to wonder what sorts of things might naturally fall into a
> group called (as you suggested above)
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> lugnet.off-topic.whiteboard
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> Quotes and fun and silly things certainly could go there as a subset of what
> it covered. And it would probably have a much more whimsical nature than
> .off-topic.fun (which wasn't really created for silliness/whimsy but rather
> for having serious or semi-serious discussions about fun things like
> breakfast cereals, pets, music albums, etc.).
duh. I guess I should have posted my messages about "Duel of the Fates" from
the Star Wars soundtrack to .off-topic.fun instead. Todd, I guess you're owed
another apology. Sorry.
> Anyone: What would the name .off-topic.whiteboard mean to you?
I think .whiteboard is better.
Idea (possibly stupid): can a link be hardcoded into the display.cgi page so
that I can read a group's charter more readily? Might be helpful for newbies
too.
-Tom McD.
when replying, ixnay the amcake.spay
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| (...) Not stupid. I was thinking about this for the FAQ as well -- the ng charters are short enough that they would easily fit into the FAQ. Making them available on the Web interface might facilitate them becoming more available to the FAQ as well. (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That's what I was afraid of last week, but I didn't listen to my gut. Shame on me. Thanks for spelling this out. (...) Ahhh. The tense feeling that I've had in my stomach all day has just subsided. Your general approach sounds like an (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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