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Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:22:33 GMT
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Todd,
Could we have this yesterday? :-) ...
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> Watching the recent discussions in lugnet.org and lugnet.org.us has been a
> lot of fun. The groups are serving their purpose well as venues for sharing
> ideas on formation and nurturing of regional user groups/clubs. But I think
> there is still much more potential within these ng hierarchies.
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> With eight significant regional clubs/groups now having taken shape --
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> BayLUG - [San Francisco] Bay Area LEGO Users Group
> NELUG - New England LEGO Users Group
> GMLUG - Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group
> WAMALUG - Washington Metro Area LEGO Users Group
> WAFOL - Wasatch Area [Utah] Fans of LEGO
> PNLTC - Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club
> GMLTC - Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club
> NGLTC - Northern Georgia LEGO Train Club
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> -- and more on the way -- it's a good time to talk about how LUGNET can help
> these regional groups prosper even more directly.
Many more on the way for sure, if what I see going on is accurate, including a
group in Italy, The South Eastern US, and a Train club in St. Louis among
others.
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> I see groups out there struggling to gain new members and invite new people
> to join obscure mailing lists; I see groups crossposting to large numbers of
> lugnet.loc.us.* state and city groups in order to reach and maintain a wide
> audience -- but crossposting on every new thread can be a real chore; and I
> see groups struggling even simply to get their name out in the open.
Although I don't think NELUG is struggling to gain members it does have a
crossposting problem in that we cover 6 states. I think having one place to go
would be great! I would have a link to it up on the NELUG site the first
opportunity I had.
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> What's worse, under many current ad hoc setups, if someone wants to
> participate in their club's discussions via NNTP news or the web, but their
> club only has a mailing list, then they're stuck with that, and the depth of
> the discussions often suffer.
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> So this is an area that LUGNET could help out in a big, big way: We could
> solve all of these issues by taking lugnet.org.us and lugnet.trains.org
> (currently plain groups with no subgroups) and making a bunch of parallel
> subgroups, one for each major group/club:
While this is true I don't think it would eliminate the need for the NELUG
mailing list entirely. For the most part this list is used to share
information such as home addresses, phone #'s, and directions to meetings which
are often held at someones home. Things like this IMHO are not things people
want to post in a public forum.
So while I think this would greatly reduce the need for a mailing list I don't
think it would necessarily eliminate the need entirely.
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> lugnet.org.us.baylug
> lugnet.org.us.nelug
> lugnet.org.us.gmlug
> lugnet.org.us.wamalug
> lugnet.org.us.wafol
> lugnet.trains.org.pnltc
> lugnet.trains.org.gmltc
> lugnet.trains.org.ngltc
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> This arrangement allows for participation in club discussions in ways
> custom-tailored to each individual -- via e-mail, digests, NNTP news, web
> boards -- even mix & match depending on the time of day or the nature of a
> discussion. If someone wants to read their club's messages as a mailing
> list, they can. If they want to read them on the web, they can. If they
> want the full power of a real newsreader, they can have it.
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> A second big advantage of this arrangement is that club announcements can be
> crossposted directly other LUGNET groups to reach the widest local audience,
> with followups directed to a club's .org group for focused discussion.
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> For example, a typical NELUG message might go simply like this:
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> Newsgroups: lugnet.org.us.nelug
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> and a major NELUG announcement could go out like this:
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> Newsgroups: lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos,lugnet.loc.us.ma,lugnet.loc.us.ct,
> lugnet.loc.us.ri,lugnet.loc.us.vt,lugnet.loc.us.nh,
> lugnet.loc.us.me,lugnet.org.us,lugnet.announce
> Followup-To: lugnet.org.us.nelug
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> I'd like to hear from the various groups/clubs and see what they think about
> this. This would all be very easy to set up given the existing structure,
> so please don't by shy. :)
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> --Todd
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> [crossposted widely with followups set to lugnet.org.us]
All very nice I can hardly think of a remote reason to not do this. One issue
though, as these sort of groups continue to pop-up I can see a bit of a
maintenance issue with the lugnet.org expanding to cover other contries and
local areas. The other issue would be when do you include a group and what
criteria do you use?
Is a web site a must?
Does the group have to meet at least once?
Just a thought. I don't really see a problem just some food for thought.
Great idea Todd and thanks,
Eric
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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 | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) which (...) Good point. There might also be some comments that you wouldn't want to say on LUGNET (and therefore in "public"), but you might want to discuss on a private mailing list. Not to keep it from anyone, but just that the venue is less (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) I'd say no. GMLTC still doesn't offically have one. It had a soft opening but... and it was in existence for years without having one, without having a name, even. (...) Again, no. GMLUG has never met. But it accomplishes good things in the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
| | | Re: CFD: Subgroups for lugnet.org.us & lugnet.trains.org
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| (...) Say, Eric, how do you maintain NELUG's member list? (Add new people's names, keep track of their email addresses, list their websites, etc.) It just occurred to me when I saw this page, (URL) LUGNET could help automate some of those sorts of (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.org.us)
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| Watching the recent discussions in lugnet.org and lugnet.org.us has been a lot of fun. The groups are serving their purpose well as venues for sharing ideas on formation and nurturing of regional user groups/clubs. But I think there is still much (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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