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Re: To Todd - Could we get .org.au up soon
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:15:57 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Shiri Dori writes:
In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
In which case, maybe .org.ANZA [Australia and New-Zealand Area] or similar?

How'bout .org.oceania?

Eeeegads, thats a good one!

Incidendtly, as Oceania isn't given a place in the football world cup, the
winner of oceania has to play the fifth placed Sth American team for the final
place from Sth America. Ripped off i say!


Either way, what i see as happening is, that the organisation
will have a list
of members, only those members can post to .org.* and it will
be upto the
organisations to maintain that list.

Agreed

Hmm. No one else can even post at all, not even *comment* on what's going on
in your group? Maybe it's just me, but I like to read and comment about what
other groups are doing... Think about the BrickFest for example, many people
that weren't there and aren't in WAMALUG posted in .org.us.wamalug, because
there were lots of things to share... it seems a bit too much to completely
dis-allow other people posting, IMHO.

Well i said that as i thought that .org. groups only allowed members to post,
as it turns out I was wrong. I just went and checked some of the group
charters. So i'm assuming that yes anyone can post into the group, though
posting doesn't mean automatic membership :-)


the logic i'm  using is as follows

*In org.au only members can post auction stuff

Agreed

This I see, definitely.

So then if anyone can post into org.au(oceiania) then how is it possible to
limit auction posts? This is an administrative nightmare for Todd if
organisations start saying who can post, who can't post, who can read, who
can't read, who's only allowed to see the third word in each line etc..

But on the same note if you don't place some restrictions surely we'll get to
a point where every auctioner and their dog will be posting auction notices
into org.au even if it has nothing to do with the organisation.

Hypothetical: someone in the US wants to auction an item and is willing to
ship to Australia, can they post an auction notice into org.au ?? or does it
belong in the general auction group?

I think I'm asking more questions that solving (so please ignore this bit):

1) should only members be allowed to post to org.au?
2) Should org.au be broken into org.au.auctions (for auctions),
org.au.comments (for non-member comments)

hmmm...

Santosh
(yay in 3 more hours i can leave for home...for SLEEP!)



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(...) There's currently no mechanism in place in the newsserver to limit posting to a given group to a given set of named people in an "easy" way, although there is a mechanism to block specific people from specific groups if they've been naughty. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)

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  Re: To Todd - Could we get .org.au up soon
 
(...) How'bout .org.oceania? (...) Hmm. No one else can even post at all, not even *comment* on what's going on in your group? Maybe it's just me, but I like to read and comment about what other groups are doing... Think about the BrickFest for (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)

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