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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 13:30:13 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> 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?
(quoting http://news.lugnet.com/admin/nntp/?n=344)
I 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 though, as should .rant (like .off-topic and .admin).
--DaveL
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| (...) 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. (...) OK, so where will .nelug (for example) sit? If you slap it under .us it's too broad an (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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