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Re: CFD: lugnet.lego.* newsgroup hierarchy
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:38:03 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> Newsgroup name URL off the website root
> ================================== ==================================
> lugnet.adventurers /adventurers/
> lugnet.aquazone /aquazone/
> lugnet.basic /basic/
> lugnet.belville /belville/
> lugnet.books /books/
> lugnet.boats /boats/
> lugnet.castle /castle/
> lugnet.dacta /dacta/
> lugnet.duplo /duplo/
> lugnet.fabuland /fabuland/
> lugnet.freestyle /freestyle/
> lugnet.mindstorms /mindstorms/
> lugnet.modelteam /modelteam/
> lugnet.pirates /pirates/
> lugnet.primo /primo/
> lugnet.promo /promo/
> lugnet.radiocontrol /radiocontrol/
> lugnet.scala /scala/
> lugnet.service /service/
> lugnet.software.* /software/
> lugnet.software.lego-chess /software/lego-chess/
> lugnet.software.lego-creator /software/lego-creator/
> lugnet.software.lego-friends /software/lego-friends/
> lugnet.software.lego-loco /software/lego-loco/
> lugnet.software.lego-racers /software/lego-racers/
> lugnet.software.lego-rockraiders /software/lego-rockraiders/
> lugnet.software.legoland /software/legoland/
> lugnet.space /space/
> lugnet.starwars /starwars/
> lugnet.technic /technic/
> lugnet.town /town/
> lugnet.trains /trains/
> lugnet.underground /underground/
> lugnet.western /western/
> lugnet.znap /znap/
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> Now, except for a couple oddities, don't those newsgroup names and URLs make
> a lot more sense? And not only that, there's no longer a questionable
> duplicity between lugnet.trains and lugnet.lego.trains, or between
> lugnet.starwars and lugnet.lego.starwars. There's still a problem about
> lugnet.mindstorms and lugnet.robotics, but the applications of LEGO
> MINDSTORMS actually go far beyond robotics.
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> Does this sound like a good third option? (It does to me!)
From the outset, I like this better. It's more intuitive. Dropping SYSTEM,
because we can't really identify a pattern as to what qualifies as SYSTEM, is
a good idea as well as dropping "lego". I vote for dropping all that sits as
unneeded baggage (including most of my posts :-) especially for that to which
is often referred.
I also seem to remember that some old classic space stuff said "Legoland" on
the box - if that's true to theme, then there's further potential
disorganization. But even if it is true, I vote to leave it as "space".
"Western" instead of "Wild West" does not bother me, as looking over the rest
of the list does not impose ambiguity, just as, ATM, "underground" does not
either.
"Software" is good. "Media" is ambiguous. Personally, I work in the media,
work on media, am the media. Son las tres y media. Too vague.
> What do you think? -- Are two lists better than one? I'm not sure that
> this...
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> Adventurers FreeStyle Space
> Aquazone Model Team Star Wars
> Basic Pirates Technic
> Belville PRIMO Town
> Books Promotional Trains
> Castle Robotics Underground
> DACTA Scala Western
> DUPLO Service ZNAP
> Fabuland Software
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> Administrative Dear LEGO Marketplace
> Announcements FAQ Off-Topic
> Building General Publishing
> CAD LEGOLAND Reviews
> Database Local Storage
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> ...is really any clearer than this:
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> Administrative FAQ Robotics
> Adventurers Fabuland Scala
> Announcements FreeStyle Service
> Aquazone General Software
> Basic LEGOLAND Space
> Belville Local Star Wars
> Books Marketplace Storage
> Building Model Team Technic
> CAD Off-Topic Town
> Castle PRIMO Trains
> DACTA Pirates Underground
> DUPLO Promotional Western
> Database Publishing ZNAP
> Dear LEGO Reviews
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> But I should wouldn't want to stuff much more into a list that big. :)
I wouldn't either. I like having things intuitive whenever possible, but if
intuition reigned supreme, everyone in the world would have huge monitors with
which to display all this stuff at a legible font size :-) If you're thinking
mostly of how much you can cram into the current homepage (thereby upsetting
that nice 3x6 table of links you've got now) maybe you could put one more link
labelled "newsgroup index" or something like that.
Yet, those who regularly read/contribute to this site know that there's
*plenty* of things Lego to discuss ad nauseum. We already know Lugnet is no
small place and it's only going to get bigger!! :-)
-Tom McD.
when replying, the movie "The Blob" was really a story about a misunderstood
victimized spamcake..
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| (...) Right -- Space used to be called LEGOLAND Space, but now it's called LEGO SYSTEM Space or the LEGO Space System. (I'd have to check with Joshua to be absolutely sure, but that's basically the idea.) It would take a temporal database to put (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) When I said there were "two main possibilities," I really meant that there were only two apparently feasable possibilities. But there's actually a third feasable possibility -- it was right under my nose and I didn't see it! (...) Here's the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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