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Re: Mailing list gateways
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:17:45 GMT
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:30:38 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:

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.

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
hammering on whether to release a chrome or non-chromed antenna) that
doesn't really need to be on lugnet.

Help me out a bit on that -- When you say "doesn't really need to be," do
you mean to suggest that those types of discussions are too esoteric for
here?

I think it's more like "we don't want the threads exposed to the world".
Of course, the major players are all there already -- you, Larry and
Mike.

Heh heh -- we've got a special newsgroup here now just for weekly
announcements of LEGO Shop-At-Home Service phone specials, and there's soon
going to be a newsgroup for Robot Arena and likely also one for Dave Baum's
NQC language.

True.  Is the Robot Arena going to be time-limited, or are they planning
a series of events?

This is a very timely topic, since we managed to choke the list last
night.  Again.

Ahhhh, that explains the sudden silence there.

So the L-CAD listserv can't handle more than 50-100 messages per day?

No, it just has a volume governor.  Unfortunately, instead of just
pausing the messages for a day (or something), it requires human
intervention to get going again.

Steve



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  Re: Mailing list gateways
 
(...) "exposed" meaning "poisoned" or "corrupted" or "affected" or "known" or "watched" or "commented on" or "muddied up"? :) If it means "known," what about lurking and/or participation from people inside TLG? (...) I think (not positive) it's an (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Mailing list gateways
 
(...) I don't follow you here. In what sense am I a major player in the LCad arena (or in the robotics arena?) I stopped following robotics some time ago, no time, and I only make very rare (but hopefully useful) suggestions in LCad. I think the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Help me out a bit on that -- When you say "doesn't really need to be," do you mean to suggest that those types of discussions are too esoteric for here? Heh heh -- we've got a special newsgroup here now just for weekly announcements of LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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