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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Dave Low writes:
>
> How does the following sound?
>
> lugnet.au: For anything to do with LEGO and Australia, in a broad sense.
> lugnet.au.org: Discussion of LUGs, fests and building the profile of the
> LegOz community.
Hmmm. I'm not sure we need a .au.org. Couldn't we just have .au.LegOz,
.au.SLUG, .au.BUG, .au.MUG, etc., with any national stuff just going in
.au.LegOz? This forces people to think about which organisation they're posting
to / about.
> lugnet.au.nsw: (..qld, ..vic, etc) State specific news and organisation.
> A place for useful but highly localised communication.
> lugnet.au.market: Shopping news; private sales, trades and auctions
> within Australia.
>
> Some notes:
> Expect crossposting between .au and .au.org like the current .loc.au,
> .org.au. Committee style admin to be worked out in .au.org. Anything to do
> with money or barter gets swept out of the current .org.au into the new
> .au.market, leaving .au.org for LUG/fest discussion. Shopping sales
> announcements should be FUT .au.market (and .au.[State] as appropriate).
> lugnet.au.market operates as a branch of lugnet.market, with crosslinking on
> the webpages. Will this tidy things up or be confusing?
>
> I would be much more likely to use .au.nsw for local notes, fest
> arrangements etc. It's significantly more user friendly than .loc.au.nsw.syd.
>
> Current addresses redirect: news.lugnet.com/loc/au/ goes to ../au/.
> ../org/au/ goes to ../au/org/. Does that sound right?
>
> What would be okay in lugnet.au (by my reckoning):
> Vegemite consumption (because many .au AFOLS eat Vegemite, and yeast
> paste is typically .au)
Mmmmm. Yeast Paste.
> Locally crafted clone-brand MOCs (because they're the original
> constructions of .au AFOLs and building bloody big things out of sub-par
> materials is typically .au)
Speak for yourself! My big things are still *exclusively* built from superior
materials!!
> Follow-ups as appropriate, of course. So if someone discovered that Vegemite
> is a better abrasive than Brasso when it comes to cleaning bricks, that's on
> topic. If someone alleges that eating Vegemite is unAustralian, that's
> off-topic debate.
>
> What would NOT be okay in lugnet.au (by my reckoning):
> Jam consumption (although many .au AFOLS eat jam, preserved fruit pulp is
> eaten globally AFAIK)
> Merits of the latest clone-brand sets (although some .au AFOLs may
> appreciate such merits, until they are used in a particularly Australian way
> they belong to the global clone-brand community)
ROSCO
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