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Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:51:48 GMT
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blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> > I really wanna understand your rationale on this. Since you bring it up
> > <smile>, how -would- you suggest, hypothetically speaking, that the .sf
> > thingie be rearranged? Some sort of magic splitting/filtering/echoing/
> > propagating into the sub-groups? Or having the mailing list gatewayed with
> > a totally separate part of the ng tree? Or as lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.ba-lego?
> > I just wanna be able to grok where you're coming from on leaning away from
> > subgroups beneath mailing-list-connect ng's...
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> Umm, I'd put all ng's with the flavor of being echoes of external
> mailing-lists into a hierarchy of lugnet.mailing-echo.*
But:
(1) The whole point in the first place of linking ba-lego@cinnamon.com with
lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf was to bring those two particular pre-existing groups
together. If ba-lego@cinnamon.com was echoed over in a .mailing-echo.*
hierarchy, then the only advantage would be NNTP (news) over SMTP (e-mail),
and for a group with just a few messages a week, there's no gain there.
(2) The whole point of linking lego-robotics@crynwr.com with lugnet.robotics
was to bring those two particular pre-existing groups together as well.
Keep in mind, even though 2/3 of the postings to lugnet.robotics come from
the mailing-list side, there were already 250 messages there in
lugnet.robotics by the time the two groups were merged in early November.
> Not to say that would make any substantial difference in anything. It
> just feels right to me.
I guess I just don't think of lugnet.robotics as an echo of the
lego-robotics@crynwr.com mailing list. Things are linked in order to merge
two otherwise separate groups.
Ok, here's another related question: What if lugnet.robotics were gatewayed
not only with lego-robotics@crynwr.com but also with a third independent
mailing list for robotics? Then what?--How would you re-arrange that into a
.mailing-echo.* hierarchy? :)
It's certainly not inconceivable that a ng could be gatewayed with N mailing
lists -- and it's trivial to set up of course...
--Todd
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