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Subject: 
Re: location of NQC group?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date: 
Sun, 9 Apr 2000 05:47:38 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

> In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Hey Todd -- the .nqc group seems out of place under RCX these days, since it
> > can also support the Scout and Cybermaster....
> 
> Yah, DaveB & I were talking about this a while back -- and since then the non-
> RCX support has gotten even stronger.  Dave indicated that he'd like to move
> the group up a level, which is possible but we'll have to actually start a new
> group since it's impossible for practical reasons to actually move a whole ng.
> 
> From a list-subscription point of view, it would just be a new email address,
> and from the web interface it would just be a URL change.
> 
> Probably needs to be a two-step procedure:  (1) Create a new group/list
> lugnet.robotics.nqc, then (2) a couple days later, shut down lugnet.robotics.
> rcx.nqc, but keep it around on the website of course for archive purposes.
> 
> Dave, do you still feel this is the way to go?  Another possibility would be
> to add .robotics.nqc and keep both groups/lists, or possibly even to add
> .robotics.nqc, .robotics.scout.nqc, and .robotics.cybermaster.nqc (making a
> total of 4 NQC groups) which is fine with me if you think it wouldn't be too
> much for people to keep up with.  Or we could shut down .robotics.rcx.nqc by
> simply disallowing posting to it, and keep the option open someday to
> reactivate it if/when someday the main NQC group becomes high-traffic.
> 
> --Todd

Personally I like the move to robotics.nqc

I don't like the idea of splitting it up. Cross posting would make reading the
groups very annoying.

I'd say make the current one archive only putting a LARGE message like the rules
pop up to new people telling them that this is read only and the new one is ...
here...

Dean
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  Re: location of NQC group?
 
(...) Yah, DaveB & I were talking about this a while back -- and since then the non- RCX support has gotten even stronger. Dave indicated that he'd like to move the group up a level, which is possible but we'll have to actually start a new group (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)  

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