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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 22:52:31 GMT
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I was serious about this. Make it moderated. I'm disappointed that not
one person even said "what a lame idea"... :-)
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Todd Lehman wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Make this one moderated. You need to explore the mechanics of a
> moderated group anyway. Do it here where it's relatively less likely to
> be controversial. Get someone to moderate it for you.
>
> Seems to me that unless someone else thinks that it is on topic and
> funny, it isn't. An unmoderated group will quickly become a slushpile
> and a failure. To a lesser extent, that is already happening in .puns,
> but that's the charter there, so it's OK, I guess.
>
> A number of these off-topic groups are, in my opinion, likely to dilute
> focus of LUGNET(TM) on things LEGO(R) if you let them. This one,
> especially so.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
FDIC Know your Customer is wounded, thanks to you, but not dead...
See http://www.defendyourprivacy.com for details
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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| (...) It might have something to do with the fact that you're not wrong (this time ;) Yet after reading Todd's admonitions, I decided to see if I could come up with a legal .QOTD from recent lugnet posts. Nothing struck me. Funny things are (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Make this one moderated. You need to explore the mechanics of a moderated group anyway. Do it here where it's relatively less likely to be controversial. Get someone to moderate it for you. Seems to me that unless someone else thinks that it (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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