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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:39:13 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
> Crossposting is the sticky issue.
Yes.
> I don't think crossposting between lugnet.* groups and rec.toys.lego is
> particularly missed at the moment -- we hear people saying (when asked) that
> they'd like to see it, but not much of people speaking up about it without
> being asked.
That's because we (I anyway) are slightly egoistic. It
doesn't matter that much to me if RTL stays alive or not now
that I'm mainly reading Lugnet.
I expect that RTL'ers actually miss cross-posting from
Lugnet because the "big guys" have moved over here, and
don't post much on RTL anymore.
> Carrying rec.toys.lego here and not allowing crossposting changes the
> dynamics of things very little. Carrying rec.toys.lego here and allowing
> crossposting changes the dynamics of things quite a bit.
IMO there's no need to change things, if it doesn't change
the dynamics.
[...]
> Again, the advantages of carrying rec.toys.lego here include: • [...]
> - slow, halt, or reverse the "brain drain" away from rec.toys.lego
It will not make any difference for me if RTL is carried on Lugnet or
not. What _will_ make a difference is if I can cross-post my messages
to RTL.
I will present some suggestions (partially inspired by
Steve's articles on the subject of cross-posting):
I would like to see:
- Automatic cross-posting from all of the Lugnet groups to
RTL.
- Automatic sorting of RTL articles into
RTL.<lugnet-group> on Lugnet when the articles are
following up on Lugnet originated articles posted to
lugnet.<lugnet-group>. The remaining articles should
be stored in RTL or RTL.misc (maybe with junk - according
to the technical Lugnet definition - in RTL.junk).
I think it would be good because:
- It would allow RTL'ers to listen in on Lugnet
discussions.
- RTL-friendly Lugnet'ers would only have to read each
message once (with a cross-post-handling newsreader).
- It would reduce the use of disk space (assuming that
Lugnet carries RTL and that we're good guys and post our
articles to both RTL and the proper Lugnet group).
- It would make it easier to follow discussions where
non-Lugnet'ers take part.
I don't know how the Lugnet NNTP server can keep
non-Lugnet'ers' articles out of the lugnet.* groups, but I
assume that it isn't impossible or unfeasible.
Play well,
Jacob
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| Earlier, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote stuff, most of which I agree with. (...) I don't think cross-posting all groups is a good idea. Particularly, groups like - lugnet.admin.database - lugnet.admin.statistics - lugnet.robotics - (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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| (...) Still more discussion is needed, I think. Crossposting is the sticky issue. Let me summarize what I believe to be the crux of the matter -- and I apologize in advance that this will be mostly stream-of-consciousness... If rec.toys.lego were (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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