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Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:32:12 GMT
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:26:34 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> Help me understand how the origin of messages in a group is pertinent to
> sub-grouping under a group? If you access a group using an NNTP newsreader,
> then it's a newsgroup to you. If you access a group via SMTP e-mail, then
> it's a mailing list to you. When you're reading and interacting with people
> in a group, why does it matter where the messages originated?
It gets back to expectations of behavior (both people and machines). As
a mail-list subsriber, I'd expect the list to behave one way. As an ng
reader, I'd have different expectations.
If Chris Atlas had posted to lugnet.anything-else, I doubt you would
have gotten any complaints.
So, since the 'members' of the ng have different expectations of/from
the lugnet.robotics, this ng should be handled somewhat differently.
Again, this is just my opinion. I've never admined an NNTP.
> Maybe another example will help pin it down -- how do you feel about the
> ba-lego@cinnamon.com mailing list gatewayed with lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf?
> lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf has sub-groups of .con, .oak, and .oak. Messages sent
> to ba-lego@cinnamon.com aren't echoed into the subgroups of
> lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf any more than messages to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf are...
True. I feel kinda the same way, but not strongly enough to suggest you
re-arrange anything.
> > But a general-purpose lugnet.events hierarchy would be interesting, too.
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> Things like LEGO fests, tours, shopping excursions...? (Unless what I'm
> thinking of is more of a .soc.events than .events...?)
And robotic tournaments, RPG get-togethers, on-line chat sessions, tours
at Enfield, ... This overlaps with lugnet.loc.* pretty strongly. But
it would give you a place for another announce group:
lugnet.events.announce. :)
> > > If there was a .gaming or .games hierarchy, and RPGs weren't a part of it,
> > > I wonder what other types of games and competitions would go there besides
> > > robotics competitions? For example, I have difficulty imagining people
> > > having Cyber Slam tournaments. :-)
> >
> > I meant that general discussion of RPGs wasn't what I meant when I
> > mentioned .games.. But discussion & planning for get-togethers to play
> > LEGO-based RPGs would be part of the charter.
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> Don't those go hand-in-hand? If not, at least transitively, right? :)
> Post-mortem discussions of get-togethers certainly go with discussion &
> planning, and part of post-mortem discussions are going to be refinements
> and questions and all that.
You could say I was thinking of lugnet.events.games.
The stuff that wouldn't belong is technical discussions on specific RPG
rules between people who are never going to get together.
On-topic: "We're going to have a game-day using the 'Wooden Ships and
Plastic Men'[1] rules in Chicago![2]"
Off-topic: "I've updated my XYZ rules. It's at ABC.com. What do you
think?"
Steve
[1] Or is that the other way around?
[2] See how easily this turns into fodder for lugnet.loc?
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| (...) I grok what you're saying, almost. It's the conclusion that I have trouble making the quantum-leap to. :) OK, so the robotics ng has a different character or flavor or group-behavior than other groups...I grok that. How does it follow that the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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