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CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.ga
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lugnet.org.us
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Date:
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 01:30:50 GMT
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Watching the recent discussions in lugnet.org and lugnet.org.us has been a
lot of fun. The groups are serving their purpose well as venues for sharing
ideas on formation and nurturing of regional user groups/clubs. But I think
there is still much more potential within these ng hierarchies.
With eight significant regional clubs/groups now having taken shape --
BayLUG - [San Francisco] Bay Area LEGO Users Group
NELUG - New England LEGO Users Group
GMLUG - Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group
WAMALUG - Washington Metro Area LEGO Users Group
WAFOL - Wasatch Area [Utah] Fans of LEGO
PNLTC - Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club
GMLTC - Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club
NGLTC - Northern Georgia LEGO Train Club
-- and more on the way -- it's a good time to talk about how LUGNET can help
these regional groups prosper even more directly.
I see groups out there struggling to gain new members and invite new people
to join obscure mailing lists; I see groups crossposting to large numbers of
lugnet.loc.us.* state and city groups in order to reach and maintain a wide
audience -- but crossposting on every new thread can be a real chore; and I
see groups struggling even simply to get their name out in the open.
What's worse, under many current ad hoc setups, if someone wants to
participate in their club's discussions via NNTP news or the web, but their
club only has a mailing list, then they're stuck with that, and the depth of
the discussions often suffer.
So this is an area that LUGNET could help out in a big, big way: We could
solve all of these issues by taking lugnet.org.us and lugnet.trains.org
(currently plain groups with no subgroups) and making a bunch of parallel
subgroups, one for each major group/club:
lugnet.org.us.baylug
lugnet.org.us.nelug
lugnet.org.us.gmlug
lugnet.org.us.wamalug
lugnet.org.us.wafol
lugnet.trains.org.pnltc
lugnet.trains.org.gmltc
lugnet.trains.org.ngltc
This arrangement allows for participation in club discussions in ways
custom-tailored to each individual -- via e-mail, digests, NNTP news, web
boards -- even mix & match depending on the time of day or the nature of a
discussion. If someone wants to read their club's messages as a mailing
list, they can. If they want to read them on the web, they can. If they
want the full power of a real newsreader, they can have it.
A second big advantage of this arrangement is that club announcements can be
crossposted directly other LUGNET groups to reach the widest local audience,
with followups directed to a club's .org group for focused discussion.
For example, a typical NELUG message might go simply like this:
Newsgroups: lugnet.org.us.nelug
and a major NELUG announcement could go out like this:
Newsgroups: lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos,lugnet.loc.us.ma,lugnet.loc.us.ct,
lugnet.loc.us.ri,lugnet.loc.us.vt,lugnet.loc.us.nh,
lugnet.loc.us.me,lugnet.org.us,lugnet.announce
Followup-To: lugnet.org.us.nelug
I'd like to hear from the various groups/clubs and see what they think about
this. This would all be very easy to set up given the existing structure,
so please don't by shy. :)
--Todd
[crossposted widely with followups set to lugnet.org.us]
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Message has 8 Replies:
 | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) I'm all for it! :-, The only drawback I can see is potential for confusion for prospective new members; e.g. someone from the SLC, Utah area wouldn't necessarily know off the bat that the newsgroup lugnet.org.us.wafol would be the place to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| Todd, Could we have this yesterday? :-) ... (...) Many more on the way for sure, if what I see going on is accurate, including a group in Italy, The South Eastern US, and a Train club in St. Louis among others. (...) Although I don't think NELUG is (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| I think it is a great idea!!! Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:3839d833.708624...net.com... (...) sharing (...) think (...) help (...) people (...) of (...) wide (...) I (...) their (...) of (...) be (...) audience, (...) about (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) Sounds great! (...) Hm, I've an idea, which is probably terrible but I'll throw it out anywise... Would there be a place for pseudo announcement newsgroups which would broadcast to a set of newsgroups, and automatically set followups to the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) So far as the only west-coaster to answer, I think it's a good idea. My $0.02. -Tom McD. radiotitan.8m.com when replying, the original story of little Jack Horner was changed because he had stuck in a lit stick of dynamite into a spamcake. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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