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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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to 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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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) How about having each groups mailing list posted to/from their group? KL (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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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)
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| | 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)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) Like I said in the following post I think there is a potential need for a private mailing list although I think that this structure would greatly reduce the need. Please read this post for my reasoning. (URL) K. The New England LEGO Users (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) which (...) Good point. There might also be some comments that you wouldn't want to say on LUGNET (and therefore in "public"), but you might want to discuss on a private mailing list. Not to keep it from anyone, but just that the venue is less (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) Most likely people would be discovering these groups either from somewhere else already (word of mouth or other list/group), or from the /org/ or /loc/ area of the website...so in addition to folks such as yourself watching over the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) Oh, I definitely agree -- a group probably wouldn't want absolutely positively everything always to have to be 100% publicly readable... especially if it had lots of cursing and things like that. :) But I wonder how you go about actually (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | 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)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) (well, I'm not a club, but...) Compartamentalization=Good. Just call me a dork. ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) their house are definite concerns. The easiest way might be to have a private e-mail list which is only for announcements like this, and any internal discussion which you don't want aired in public (if your club was going to donate money to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) However the mailing list software I am familiar with (Listproc and Majordomo) require you to be a subscriber in order to access the archives (or at least can be, and usually are, configured that way). (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) <for a well thought out expansion of groups, which I mercilessly snipped> One vote yes. (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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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)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) I'd say no. GMLTC still doesn't offically have one. It had a soft opening but... and it was in existence for years without having one, without having a name, even. (...) Again, no. GMLUG has never met. But it accomplishes good things in the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) So anyone can still subscribe, snoop through the archives, then unsubscribe on a whim...? That's not private. --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) Say, Eric, how do you maintain NELUG's member list? (Add new people's names, keep track of their email addresses, list their websites, etc.) It just occurred to me when I saw this page, (URL) LUGNET could help automate some of those sorts of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) I think most mailers give you the option of automatically allowing subscribes, OR of requiring a human to approve the subscribe. Not MUCH better but a bit. Most large lists run as automatically allowing subscribes, though. (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <383B39A3.DB5A938C@v...er.net>... (...) unsubscribe (...) I run two club lists on Majordomo which are "closed" which means I (or one of the other people the list owner id forwards to, or in fact anyone who knows the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <383b1a64.153493579@...et.com>... (...) in (...) NELUG's (...) the (...) Cool. (...) /org/us/xyzpdq/ (...) just (...) Cool. (...) Sounds good to me. Hmm, we're just barely there for a triangle (Raleigh/Durham NC) group (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) As you probably guessed it is all manual. (...) Something like this would be wonderful. It might take a little time to get things synchronized but it would probably be much simpler to maintain in the long run. I would definitly like to talk to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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(...) only archiving, or no archiving. We chose to leave the archives open to everyone. I guess if we ever wanted to take a discussion out of the public eyes, we could just start a discussion by "replying to all recipients" or something. I do like (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| | 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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