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Subject: 
Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au
Date: 
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:20:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dave Low writes:

How does the following sound?

  lugnet.au:  For anything to do with LEGO and Australia, in a broad sense.
  lugnet.au.org:  Discussion of LUGs, fests and building the profile of the
LegOz community.

Hmmm. I'm not sure we need a .au.org. Couldn't we just have .au.LegOz,
.au.SLUG, .au.BUG, .au.MUG, etc., with any national stuff just going in
.au.LegOz? This forces people to think about which organisation they're posting
to / about.

  lugnet.au.nsw:  (..qld, ..vic, etc) State specific news and organisation.
A place for useful but highly localised communication.
  lugnet.au.market:  Shopping news; private sales, trades and auctions
within Australia.

Some notes:
Expect crossposting between .au and .au.org like the current .loc.au,
.org.au. Committee style admin to be worked out in .au.org. Anything to do
with money or barter gets swept out of the current .org.au into the new
.au.market, leaving .au.org for  LUG/fest discussion. Shopping sales
announcements should be FUT .au.market (and .au.[State] as appropriate).
lugnet.au.market operates as a branch of lugnet.market, with crosslinking on
the webpages. Will this tidy things up or be confusing?

I would be much more likely to use .au.nsw for local notes, fest
arrangements etc. It's significantly more user friendly than .loc.au.nsw.syd.

Current addresses redirect: news.lugnet.com/loc/au/ goes to ../au/.
../org/au/ goes to ../au/org/. Does that sound right?

What would be okay in lugnet.au (by my reckoning):
  Vegemite consumption (because many .au AFOLS eat Vegemite, and yeast
paste is typically .au)

Mmmmm. Yeast Paste.

  Locally crafted clone-brand MOCs (because they're the original
constructions of .au AFOLs and building bloody big things out of sub-par
materials is typically .au)

Speak for yourself! My big things are still *exclusively* built from superior
materials!!

Follow-ups as appropriate, of course. So if someone discovered that Vegemite
is a better abrasive than Brasso when it comes to cleaning bricks, that's on
topic. If someone alleges that eating Vegemite is unAustralian, that's
off-topic debate.

What would NOT be okay in lugnet.au (by my reckoning):
  Jam consumption (although many .au AFOLS eat jam, preserved fruit pulp is
eaten globally AFAIK)
  Merits of the latest clone-brand sets (although some .au AFOLs may
appreciate such merits, until they are used in a particularly Australian way
they belong to the global clone-brand community)

ROSCO



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  Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
(...) I'd be happy with .au.LegOz. I'd think regional LUG discussion could go in .au.nsw, .au.vic, .au.qld etc, avoiding too much clutter. Does .au.market sound like a goer (pending Todd's okay)? (...) (Belches happily.) (...) My monumental 99.95% (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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  Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
 
(...) I like the idea, so I'm piping up now ;~). One of the main reasons we asked for .org.au was to stop Australian .market-style flogs from getting lost in the USian traffic. This was always (IMHO) a fairly awkward solution, and I don't think it (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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