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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 20:57:30 GMT
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"Jesse Long" <LongJR97@hotmail.com> writes:
> So it's going to be carried here but not only here? My mistake. [...]
Nah, it's 100% my mistake -- I shouldn't have used the word "hosted" in the
subject line -- I should have used "carried."
"Should RTL be carried on this server?"
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> Harmful. It would suggest that there are elements of RTL that Lugnet
> doesn't want, and that's going to tend towards accusations of elitism.
Aha, yes -- good point -- too much potential for accusations of elitism (in
the negative sense of the word, hi Larry :).
If it were filtered, we might also see people making statements like, "I get
my RTL on lugnet.com because it's better there." That would be bad for
things.
So we can't filter RTL if it's carried here. All or nothing, as you said
later.
> > Bringing RTL here just would mean hosting it here as yet another newsgroup,
> > but with it still being available everywhere else exactly as-is.
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> I see. I support that, since only Lugnet people are going to be affected by
> getting to read RTL on Lugnet. All the others will still use their old
> servers. Although they may have some new incentive to try Lugnet since they
> can get RTL, but I doubt that, since I get the impression that most
> newsreaders switch fairly easily.
Well, there's facts -- like how easy it is to reconfigure your newsreader --
and then there's perceptions -- like whether or not it's worth it. I'm sure
there are some people teeter-tottering who've dipped their feet in the pool
but aren't quite sure yet.
> Maybe this is more a matter of technology
> than it is community.
I see it as a super-complex sociologial issue which is a mix of technology,
psychology, community, facts, perceptions, beliefs, and loyalties. There
are few clearly right or clearly wrong answers on the surface, but the
manner in which it's handled technologically surely has implications down
the road for other aspects of the issue -- the community side.
As Steve Bliss pointed out, and as you mentioned about filtering, a small
mistake in the technological implementation can have a negative sociological
impact. That's why it's important to plan, discuss, debate, and get many
minds to collectively brainstorm about something like this -- so that the
technological implementation has good reprecussions rather than bad ones.
:)
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <3662a9e2.2109338@lu...et.com>... (...) I don't think the Lugnet people are of the mindset to label. Excessively. (...) So it's going to be carried here but not only here? My mistake. Now I see almost no reason to argue (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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