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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:08:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> I'm entertaining the idea that ".loc" could be removed from all such
> newsgroup names. In other words, "What If?"
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> If we did that, we could have _very_ simple newsgroup names like:
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> lugnet.au
> lugnet.us
> lugnet.us.ma.bos
> lugnet.uk
I like this, but it would be important that they were all presented together on
the web page so that it was obvious they were similar in nature.
> Axing the .org hierarchy as well (but keeping lugnet.org itself) and moving
> the regional LUG groups withing their respective lugnet.xx country-based
> hierarchy would also help the alleviate confusion we currently have in cases
> like lugnet.org.us vs. lugnet.loc.us.
OK, so where will .nelug (for example) sit? If you slap it under .us it's too
broad an audience. If you slap it under .us.ma then it's too narrow. Can you
have one NG pointed to from several locations? Can .nelug appear under each of
the .us.<NewEnglandState> groups while still only being one group?
I don't have something to respond to here about lugnet.debate, but I wanted to
weigh in with the opnion that it's the wrong way to go. It seemed from your
initial note that the reason you were thinking about it was because LEGO-themed
debates slip into .off-topic.debate sometimes. Why not train people to do it
right? We have no hesitation to tell people to take it out of groups and into
.o-t.debate when it's not appropriate, so why not just do the same in
reverse? Or is getting away from that kind of redirection the whole point?
My $.02 for now,
Chris
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| (...) (quoting (URL) think that lugnet.debate would be useful for on-topic controversy (eg perennial faves "does Lego encourage violence?", "why are all minifigs yellow?", "how much does juniorisation suck?"). It should be a default skip-filter (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Do you mean the kind of cross-org talk that happens in groups like lugnet.org and lugnet.org.xx, or the kind that happens when someone from one org posts in another org's group? I don't see a reason why lugnet.org couldn't and shouldn't still (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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