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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:28:30 GMT
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James Brown wrote in message ...
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> > * Delete lugnet.market.auction and lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade and • replace
> > these with lugnet.market.forsale, lugnet.market.wanted, and • lugnet.market
> > .swap? Why or why not?
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> Hmm... as others have mentioned, .swap is not entirely clear how it's
> different from .wanted, and there would likely be a lot of x-posted. How
> about just lugnet.market.foroffer and lugnet.market.wanted?
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> The only thing that personally bothers me about this is that I'll
> more-or-less stop reading the market groups. I stopped reading .auction a
> while ago because the ratio of noise (things I wasn't interested in, mostly
> e-bay, but also lots of other auctions) to content was too high. If .bst
> and .auction are effectively merged, then I highly suspect that the
> noise-to-signal ratio will be too high for me to put my time into it. :/
> But personal preferences aside, it sounds like a better, more clear
> hierarchy, and so is probably a good thing.
I have to "me too" on this post. James has stated me feelings on this quite
well. I generally don't even go to auctions, but then I miss the personal
auctions that people run (which I would participate in). I would also (if
you combined the groups) abandon BST (if you combined the groups) area
because the noise from Ebay would be so great.
BTW we added a skip filter to all Ebay messages in auction but so many
messages still get through that I generally don't even bother looking in
auction anymore.
Rose
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| (...) Sure. They can't hurt, and adding them gives you the coverage you need to toast the mostly obsolete dear-lego group. I'd suggest having them as just .rant and .rave instead of under the .lego.* hierarchy, to avoid implications that they're (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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