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Re: Mailing list gateways
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:42:08 GMT
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blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
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> > Are you in favor of gatewaying the l-cad@listserv.uh.edu mailing list with
> > the lugnet.cad newsgroup or a subgroup of it? (This capability is 99.9%
> > already set up -- it just needs group approval and a switch thrown at each
> > end to make it a reality.)
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> I'd be for it, as long as it wasn't tied directly to lugnet.cad. Make a
> new group, lugnet.cad.dev or lugnet.maillist.lcad, or something.
Steve,
You're much more in touch with people's feeling on this issue than I am.
I don't really understand the disadvantages...all I see are advantages...
But then again, I'm probably biased because I'm not a fan of e-mail for
threaded discussions.
Are there any clear advantages and disadvantages of such a linkage (in terms
of the current L-CAD participants and/or the larger online LEGO community)?
Are the issues purely technical, or partly socio-political as well? I'm
sure that any technical hurdles are work-around-able with clever newsserver
customizations.
--Todd
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| (...) I don't know about that. (...) I don't think any of the issues are technical. Actually, I'd like to see a lot of the traffic from L-CAD move to lugnet. But there's a lot of other traffic that is more a private discussion among L-CAD'ers (like (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Mailing list gateways
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| (...) I would say that my reasons are purely "socio-political". I would like a clear separation of developer and user discussions on the topic of LEGO CAD. Now that I see how people actually use l-cad and lugnet.cad, I think it makes most sense to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Mailing list gateways
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| (...) I meant that if there was a hierarchy created specifically to echo mailing lists, I would support the idea of echoing/linking L-CAD on lugnet. But I have the feeling that this hierarchy would only ever have two subgroups. (...) I was (...) (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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