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Subject:	Memberships - so many people I don't know
Newsgroups:	lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sun, 28 Nov 1999 05:01:45 GMT
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I was just looking through the membership list and am astonished at the number of names listed that I am not familiar with. In fact, I don't know about 60% of the members. Which makes me wonder: In RTL, I can/could read who posted to any thread, even if I had no interest in reading that thread. By sheer frequency of posting, names became familiar. And people posted on lots of general topics so it seems like you knew almost everybody. LUGNET, by design, is much more specialized and categorized. Because of that categorization, I read only the boards that interest me. Because I have no exposure to other boards, it seems that I have missed the opportunity to meet lots of people. It almost feels like I've gone from a small school, where everyone knew everyone else, to a university, where small cliques are created by finite and similar interests with little or no contact with anyone outside of the clique. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this a good thing?* Ed "Boxer" Jones *LUGNET is a great thing; the question is are the "cliques" that have formed a good thing.

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		Re: Memberships - so many people I don't know
(...) Of course you can always step out of your "safe zone" periodically and check out groups/boards that you don't normally read. That way, you will have seized the opportunity to meet lots of people, rather than being passive and missing it. Just (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Memberships - so many people I don't know
Good point. lugnet.people, seems to me, is just the thing to try to combat it. I think Lugnet is BIGGER than RTL is, at least in terms of people who participate regularly, although who knows about lurkers... So it's going to be hard to know (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Memberships - so many people I don't know
(...) even (...) seems (...) That's one of the reasons I like reading lugnet from the "main screen" (the primary URL, www.lugnet.com). It displays messages from all the newsgroups. I do some picking and choosing, of course, but it helps counter my (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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