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Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:18:14 GMT
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Linc Smith <ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> writes:

> [...]
> Firstly, as a Lugnet.robotics user (not on the robotics mail list) I did not
> think that the merger was the best idea. And, I feel there was very little
> input or time given to Lugnet.robotics group before it was implemented.  If
> anyone wants to debate this point please bring the time and date of the
> first PUBLIC mail on the topic, and the time and date of the mail announcing
> the implementation. Don't forget to take into consideration time zones, and
> that not everybody can look at there mail every day.
> [...]


Linc,

Here are the dates of a few of the key public mails on the subject (there
were some 40 or 50 related and semi-related messages in all):

   Date                                    Author           Location
   ------------------------------------    --------------   ------------
   Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:45:54 GMT            Matthew Miller   newsgroup
   Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:23:04 -0400 (EDT)    Matthew Miller   mailing list
   Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:10:15 +0200         Eric Brok        mailing list
   Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:06:11 -0400 (EDT)   Matthew Miller   mailing list
   Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:18:02 GMT           Matthew Miller   newsgroup
   Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:07:49 GMT           Todd Lehman      newsgroup
   Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:07:59 -0600         Todd Lehman      mailing list

There were various private e-mails to-from Rusell Nelson (owner/maintainer
of the lego-robotics@crynwr.com mailing list) and others as well. Basically,
this two-way link was "in the making" since before day 1 of the lugnet.com
newsgroups going live.  It just took a while to figure out how to implement
it.

I guess we missed posing the topic on lugnet.robotics as a CFD, sorry.  If
the internals really are a bunch of noise for non-internals people, it would
be very easy to create a lugnet.robotics.internals newsgroup.  (I think this
may even have been what MattM originally suggested) and gateway the
lego-robotics@crynwr.com list there instead of lugnet.robotics.

Unfortunately, I don't know where to suggest a good meeting point would be
for such a discussion.  I suppose lugnet.admin.general makes sense, since
anyone on lego-robotics@crynwr.com directly won't care what lugnet.* group
it winds up in, and if they did, they could still follow the thread on the
web.

--Todd



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  Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
 
Todd Lehman wrote in message (...) Agreed (DAMN! I hate a man with his finger on a search engine and an archive). :) Of course my comments were directed more to the debate of the gateway within Lugnet.robotics, and not the general idea of how a (...) (28 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
 
I am not sure if this is the right thread, or the only thread on the subject, but it seems close to what I have to say. Although the "gateway" is now here, and I *NOT* (repeat not) advocating the removal, I still want to say my two pickles. Firstly, (...) (28 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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