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Re: Uselessness of .debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:47:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:

...one of the purposes of the debate groups is for a place for non-LEGO topics
to spill over from other groups- organically arrived at debates, rather than
hothouse debates grown solely for off-topic.debate.  If potential members
aren't allowed to post there, they might feel less welcome and therefore less
likely to become members.

  That's a good point.  It hadn't occurred to me because I don't usually get
ensnared by a debate until it's already in .debate!
  Maybe we should have off-topic.debate.pure and off-topic.debate.spill.  8^)

    Dave!



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  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) Actually, those two are great ideas, IMHO. I wonder how many people that aren't members post updates about their LEGO eBay auctions on Lugnet, and never give back to the upkeep of Lugnet... I hadn't ever thought of that before. And the admin (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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