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[Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see?

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  [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-20 09:21 +0000
    Re: [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-20 11:40 +0200
    Re: [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see? Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-02-20 07:53 -0600
    Re: [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see? wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-20 10:40 +0000
    Re: Poll  What kind of articles would we like to see? "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-21 10:58 +0000
    Re: [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 09:39 +0000

#603 — [Poll] What kind of articles would we like to see?

Greetings all -

Someone worried that we were already seeing article go by with no 
comments.  That doesn't worry me, really - just means no one was 
interested in that subject.  I'm making an effort to post an article or 
two in the morning while I drink my coffee, and hope others will do the 
same.  And I'll try to post stuff that people are interested in.

But for the sake of interest, let's hear from everyone about what kind 
of articles people enjoy and what kind people don't enjoy.  I doubt 
we'll have a consensus here (that would actually be a bad thing) but it 
will help us all post articles the group likes, and that leads to 
interesting conversation.

I Enjoy:
niche, old, or innovative OSes (VMS, BeOS)
platform/architecture articles
privacy/spying stuff
most Linux/BSD articles
articles that introduce me to software I'd otherwise never have known

I Often Dislike:
political articles on tech sites (I hated the new /. section)
celebrity gossip about tech leads like Jobs, Gates
deep programming stuff (I read it anyway, but I'm not a programmer)

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#605

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>:

> Someone worried that we were already seeing article go by with no
> comments.  That doesn't worry me, really - just means no one was
> interested in that subject.

It doesn't even mean that. It just means nobody had anything to
broadcast to the world about it. IOW, interest doesn't equate
discussion.


Marko

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#610

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:21:22 +0000, RS Wood belched forth:

> Greetings all -
> 
> Someone worried that we were already seeing article go by with no 
> comments.  That doesn't worry me, really - just means no one was 
> interested in that subject.  I'm making an effort to post an article or 
> two in the morning while I drink my coffee, and hope others will do the 
> same.  And I'll try to post stuff that people are interested in.
> 
> But for the sake of interest, let's hear from everyone about what kind 
> of articles people enjoy and what kind people don't enjoy.  I doubt 
> we'll have a consensus here (that would actually be a bad thing) but it 
> will help us all post articles the group likes, and that leads to 
> interesting conversation.
> 
> I Enjoy:
> niche, old, or innovative OSes (VMS, BeOS)
> platform/architecture articles
> privacy/spying stuff
> most Linux/BSD articles
> articles that introduce me to software I'd otherwise never have known
> 
> I Often Dislike:
> political articles on tech sites (I hated the new /. section)
> celebrity gossip about tech leads like Jobs, Gates
> deep programming stuff (I read it anyway, but I'm not a programmer)

I'd suggest adding discussions on mobile computing to the list
(smartphones, etc), perhaps crossposted to comp.dcom.telecom..?


-- 
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#616

> But for the sake of interest, let's hear from everyone about what kind
> of articles people enjoy and what kind people don't enjoy.  I doubt
> we'll have a consensus here (that would actually be a bad thing) but it
> will help us all post articles the group likes, and that leads to
> interesting conversation.

I'm interested in a lot of things, sometimes even stuff that might not
be an interest of mine at the moment. The only thing I really have no
interest in at all is one that you posted:

> celebrity gossip about tech leads like Jobs, Gates

At the very least, I'll skim every top level post and decide if I want to
dig deeper... so just about any sci/tech subject is fine with me as long
as it is actually about the science or technology.

--
Now frequenting comp.misc daily in a prolonged fit of netstalgia.

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#672 — Re: Poll What kind of articles would we like to see?

>  I'm making an effort to post an article or two in the morning while I drink my 
> coffee
Thank you, you're keeping the group alive.

> I Often Dislike: political articles on tech sites (I hated the new /. section) 
I like the YRO type of politics. Although a lot of the stories on /. were too USian, 
Usenet is more international.

> celebrity gossip about tech leads 
Me neither
> deep programming stuff
Sometimes this is interesting, like the thread about Reactive Programming.

regards
~tdk
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#764

On 2014-02-20, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Greetings all -
>

Any other opinions?  I'd imagined everyone posting their preferences so
we can figure out what kind of articles to feed to the group (or avoid).

If not, silence = acquiescence and you'll be seeing more of the same,
or hopefully helping feed news to this group.

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