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In lugnet.cad.dev, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > > Why the .org. then?
> > Well, at the risk of sounding like I'm repeating myself, I really like the
> > thought of a special group lugnet.trains.org for people to help plan and
> > talk about how to set up more clubs like PNLTC and GMLTC. The .org. node
> > is forward-expandable to lugnet.trains.org.pnltc and lugnet.trains.org
> > .gmltc if those clubs ever decided that they wanted discussion areas or
> > mailing lists.
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> Yes, okay. A point you made in an earlier post is that lugnet.org and
> lugnet.com are potentially confusing to the starting user. Perhaps if you
> used .club. instead of .org. ? It breaks the domain-mapping paradigm, but
> it's a little more descriptive.
At one time in fact there was a clubs.* hierarchy -- I'd mistaken what
someone at PNLTC had said; I thought they said they wanted a focused PNLTC
discussion group, but they didn't, so we deleted the group (and the
hierarchy).
http://www.lugnet.com/news/fullthread.cgi?lugnet.announce:9
The nice thing about "org" is that "organization" is such a wonderfully
generic term. Companies are organizations, clubs are organizations, user
groups are organizations, schools are organizations, etc.
There was also here at one time a lugnet.lug.* hierarchy, but that went away
too when it was realized that these would belong closer to their natural
spots in the lugnet.loc.* hierarchy. And although baylug.org is a LUG,
pnltc.org and gmltc.org and ldraw.org are not LUGs. But they're all
organizations.
--Todd
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