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list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:13:10 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.comIHATESPAM>
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I would love to see this happen. I think the technical issues have been
solved. Where I see a stumbling block that needs to be talked through is...
are the charters (of the list, and of the newsgroup) congruent, or close
enough?
We have seen a schism, of sorts, on the list among the following camps (not
necessarily equvalence classes, mind you, there is a lot of overlap among
camps):
* Mindstorms/LEGO purists (I'm in this camp, if you can't do it with
pure LEGO I don't want to do it, and I have no interest in STAMPs or doing
my own sensors) vs. robotics enthusiasts for which MS is one of many avenues
for exploring vs. the compromise of people who want to make different/more
sensors available to the brick
* people who build mechanisms vs. programmers vs. meta-programmers
(the disassemblers and coders of new languages, etc.)
* Sessile vs. motile
* competition bots vs. useful ones
Note that there is no implication of animosity between camps, just different
interests. Can one combined group/list cater to everyone? I think it can.
Others do not.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Lehman [SMTP:lehman@javanet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 04 November, 1998 2:40 PM
> To: Russell Nelson; Dave Walker; Kekoa Proudfoot; Patrick Gili; Eric
> Brok; Larry Pieniazek
> Cc: Matthew Miller; lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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> mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
> > > anyone recommend a mailing list for all lego robot enthusiasts?
> > Well, there's lugnet.robotics, which can be accessed as a mailing list
> > if you prefer that to news.
>
> What are current thoughts on gatewaying this lego-robotics mailing list
> into the lugnet.robotics newsgroup, so that people who want to read it
> there as a newsgroup instead of a mailing list can do so.
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> It wasn't possible at the Lugnet end when it was first suggested by LarryP
> in early October, but today it's extremely easy to do.
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> The gatewaying is set up so that messages pass freely between two sources
> without people having to "sign up" in both places. Essentially, the only
> sign-up is for the two sources to sign up each other -- that is, to add
> lego-robotics@crynwy.com to the mailing list for lugnet.robotics and add
> lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com this mailing list. Avoidance of duplicate
> messages is handled at the Lugnet end by the use of X-Nntp-Gateway and
> X-Loop and headers.
>
> --Todd Lehman
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 | | Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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| (...) I think it can, too. The only problem I see is that now all the people who read the mailing list version of lugnet.robotics are now going to get a flood of messages. These people might not be too happy about that. I remember people wanting (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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| (...) I would agree that there is strong enough division between the three following topics to warrent seperate fora: -- "Pure" Lego robotics: using only Real Lego hardware, although including using alternate development environments. This is (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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