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Re: Thoughts on breaking out a pneumatics subgroup
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Date: 
Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:01:18 GMT
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I agree with you, Peter. Usually there are somewhere between 10 and 30
postings to this group per day. It shouldn't be too difficult to find the
pneumatics postings among them.
The daily number of postings as it is now is enough to keep a healthy
discussion going. Moving parts of the postings to specialised groups will
benefit no one.

Arjen


"Peter A. Vogel" <pavogel@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:FpoGtB.47p@lugnet.com...
-- snip
Just to express the contrarian view:  I think it is a bad idea.  Too often • I
see subgroups created that languish due to a lack of volume.  There's a
certain "critical mass" needed to keep a group going, if one goes a week
without postings, there is a tendency to "forget" about the group and it
founders.

Pneumatics is one way of achieving "action" in a Technic model (robotic
or otherwise) and as such belongs as a part of the general Technic
discussions,
not subdivided away into oblivion (IMHO of course).

Personally, I think LUGNET has way too much subdivision of some groups
(Robotics comes to mind).  I count 18 groups I have to subscribe to (via
my newsreader) just to cover my interests, but about 2/3 of them haven't
had a posting in months/weeks...

-Peter






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(...) Just to express the contrarian view: I think it is a bad idea. Too often I see subgroups created that languish due to a lack of volume. There's a certain "critical mass" needed to keep a group going, if one goes a week without postings, there (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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