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Re: Before we get totally entrenched here...

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On 02/09/2014 03:19 PM, TrueSatan wrote:
> RS Wood wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-02-09, Lance Orner 
> <lance@orner.invalid.net> wrote:
>>> On 2014-02-09, wjwlsn 
> <ibillwilson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is this the "right" newsgroup to 
> "take over"?
>>>
>>> Since "comp.misc" is an old newsgroup 
> which must be on every server,
>>> and has no existing traffic, it looks 
> like a good place to me.  Since
>>> the Slashdot crowd tends to talk about 
> technical topics, this would
>>> seem to fit the charter of 
> "comp.misc", or at least whatever charter
>>> there was at the beginning of time.
>>>
>>> ::Still dusting of my .slrnrc file::
>>
>> Also, there are other groups that would 
> fit other traditional sections
>> of Slashdot, but we'd risk being too 
> spread out.  For example:
>> alt.privacy  roughly corresponds to 
> Your Rights Online, there are
>> vintage OS groups, too many (crappy) 
> politics groups to count, and so
>> on.  I can imagine branching some 
> topics out to those other newsgroups,
>> but my preference is to try to get the 
> gang to 'assemble'in one single
>> place until we've got something 
> approaching critical mass.
> 
> I tend to agree with your assessment. It 
> seems folly, to me, to splinter more than 
> we have to at what is an early stage for 
> this life after Slashdot.If this is a 
> more widely held view then it would allow 
> us to take our time and to petition 
> whomever such things are best directed 
> towards (perhaps those who can offer 
> direction on this might post?) for 
> appropriate new categories.
> 
>  It isn't something to hurry over but it 
> would be interesting to see proposals for 
> a suitable new category tree structure.
> 

Coming up with a general guidelines/FAQ document could lead to some
useful conventions that allow one group to be used while allowing for
some organization.  For instance: using top level new threads as
categories, and thread level out for article postings, with anything
beyond that falling under "comments".   Use of different subjects for
comments rather than "re: <insert parent subject here>" to allow for
easier skimming.  Things in this vein.

As for the group we pick, I'm not really sure that it matters so much,
provided that A) it's not an already occupied group, and B) it's not
full of spam.  People coming to us will be mostly coming from mentions
on web sites anyway, rather than happening across us perusing the usenet
hierarchy...it is still 2014, after all.

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Before we get totally entrenched here... wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 13:37 +0000
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 18:54 +0000
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 19:54 +0000
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-09 20:19 +0000
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... cykros <cykros@devio.us> - 2014-02-11 23:41 -0500
          Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-12 10:44 +0000
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 09:51 -0500
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... "Elizabeth T. Knuth" <eknuth@csbsju.edu> - 2014-02-11 01:09 -0600
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-11 11:27 +0000
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:34 -0500
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com - 2014-02-11 06:49 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-11 16:51 +0000
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:04 -0800
          Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-12 13:22 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... cykros <cykros@devio.us> - 2014-02-11 23:45 -0500
  Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:01 -0500
    Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... sagebump <outersend@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 09:33 -0800
      Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-03 12:05 -0600
        Re: Before we get totally entrenched here... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 19:49 +0000

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