Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Potential Charter (was comp.misc list of ...) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: <8c3a4756-8def-4696-9506-37ab446af87c@googlegroups.com> <4651#10807@usenet.squte.com> X-Trace: solani.org 1393157613 22575 eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCV+PKScVD2HyF3/lHZYXSar+9VNcuG/TgdRY+SyjOhoBSIGCjy7hSFigcLLhBd (23 Feb 2014 12:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:13:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwQEBwDAIAzBLPYMW7DCGfwlP4vDjlTPosbEtx4xkGSWzodejUka1akXhnsQ89hgcPwA4EAE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:nBTtimbalzSESv06cyUjaPZDyI0= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYkBwCAIA8CVYiOg48iT/UfondGXV2w33yYTwaSzMvsA3+jVO6GskcF8RRfumUH35Yg/K0MR6Q== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:780 On 2014-02-22, James Harris wrote: >> This group needs an FAQ anyway, so maybe it should go in there? > > I'm not sure what you want to achieve but those of us on alt.os.development > wanted to put a FAQ on a wiki so we set up > > http://aodfaq.wikispaces.com/ > > We found that to be a better solution than posting a FAQ periodically to the > newsgroup. Now we just post an occasional pointer to the wiki. > > James > > That's a good idea. I am thinking back nervously to the "before we get too entrenched here" discussion but still think we can go elsewhere if we decide. And I increasingly feel like comp.* addresses have higher real estate value than alt.* addresses. So assuming we stay at comp.misc, I took a stab at a quick charter. I saw wikispaces is for teachers/students and I'm neither so I created it at wikia.com. If anyone has a better idea, no prob. URL: http://compmisc.wikia.com Here's what I wrote. PLEASE resist the urge to suggest corrections on Usenet. (team editing docs by email is a nightmare but my company does it all day, every day - makes me want to slit my wrists) :) Please edit it on the wiki - that's the point of a wiki. My text below is just a point of departure, so rather than taking umbrance at my first draft, pull up a keyboard ... Comp.Misc Charter & FAQ This document is an introduction to the Usenet comp.misc newsgroup. It was last updated on 23 Feb 2014. CHARTER The comp.misc newsgroup has existed for several decades, but like much of Usenet, fell into disuse in the early 21st century. In February 2014, it was somewhat suddenly reinvigorated by a group of former users of the www.slashdot.org website. Those users had decided the latest version of the slashdot interface ("beta") inhibited the good conversation that had made the site so interesting in the first place, and decided to go congregate somewhere else. With a renewed interest in and appreciation for Usenet, they decided to make comp.misc their home. The users of comp.misc hope to make it (again) a site where subjects of general interest to a technologically-savvy crowd can be posted and discussed in an ambience of collaboration, respect, and diplomacy. Like Slashdot and other similar websites over time that have hoped to appeal to techies, such subject may include but are not limited to: Operating systems, programming techniques and languages, business developments in the tech sector, communication protocols, current, future, and past platforms, protocols, and equipment, mobile technologies, gadgets, privacy concerns, and websites or services of potential interest to the community. In general, the community hopes to avoid, where possible, particularly devisive or polemic subjects - politics, especially - that would detract from discussion of the above, and where necessary, to engage in political debate with tact and diplomacy, recognizing that such debates (flame wars) have led to the destruction of formerly vibrant Usenet communities in the past. FAQs This group currently has no FAQs, and as it is not dedicated to the in-depth discussion of any single subject, is unlikely to have them any time soon. -- Revision history: 2014-02-23 Original draft, Randall Wood