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Re: Carrying rec.toys.lego on lugnet.com
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:22:08 GMT
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cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > How might things actually play out if cross-posting between rec.toys.lego
> > and lugnet.* groups were allowed for people who've gone through the news-
> > posting setup? (Obviously, it can't be allowed for people who have not gone
> > through the news-posting setup.) Would it result in everyone eventually
> > doing it? -- or in most people ignoring it and irking everyone else from the
> > fragmentation? Of course there is only one way to know for sure, but what
> > are some predictions?
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> Not to suggest anything bad about RTLers specifically, but it has been
> my experience that when you're talking about getting a large group of
> people to do something that they don't *have* to do, even if it would
> be to their benefit, chances are most of them will not do it.
That's my experience too. :-/ Of course it's just human nature -- people
almost always need a selfish reason to go out of their way for something so
idiosyncratic.
> Right now we're phasing out our old modem pool. We've had the new one
> up for 2 months with notices going out via e-mail every couple of
> weeks that Jan 4th was the cutoff date (we're actually just gradually
> limiting the number of B channels it can use till we cut it off
> entirely in a week or two). That modem pool is still getting over
> half of the calls.
Hee hee. :)
> Same thing will happen with this registration thing. Joe RTLer
> doesn't have to register here to post to RTL, so chances are he won't.
> Some will, especially those interested in maintaining an unfragmented
> discussion. Most, for whatever reason (laziness, lack of experience,
> forgetfulness, outright refusal, etc) won't do it.
And on top of that, there's the constant influx of newbies...
OK, well, if the question comes up again, I'm going to let it slide and
either point someone to these threads or let someone else do it.
--Todd
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| Well since getting RTL here sometime in the near future looks practicaly impossible... Is there a news server that does carry it. I dislike using the AOL browser for anything, for me AOL is just a internet connection. Outlook Express does a (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Not to suggest anything bad about RTLers specifically, but it has been my experience that when you're talking about getting a large group of people to do something that they don't *have* to do, even if it would be to their benefit, chances are (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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