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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc |
| Date | 2014-03-02 19:56 +0000 |
| Organization | solani.org |
| Message-ID | <lf02ea$io2$1@solani.org> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <ldu89e$2mh$3@dont-email.me> <bmgff2F4gmvU1@mid.individual.net> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1402261231560.12598@darkstar.example.org> <lelbte$h5o$1@solani.org> <20140302175229.2e625d4d.andy.k466@gmail.com> |
On 2014-03-02, Andy K. <andy.k466@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:31:05 +0000 > RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > >> > Usenet needs more people to participate than it does carpetbaggers >> > taking over one unused newsgroup because the website they've >> > invested in so much has incremented its level of commerciality. >> >> Michael - You seem overly invested in protecting this Usenet group >> for the people who were using it prior to February 2014. > > While he was way over the line in his tone and most of his points, he > was right in the fact that some crossposting would be a good idea. If > only to increase visibility of certain threads towards groups which > might provide additional insight, making this group even more > interesting to read. Funny you should mention that; I was just thinking of a new idea. There was a pretty good discussion on crossposting here earlier and most people - and me too - are against it. I think crossposting often leads to parallel discussions and is annoying. But I was thinking - as you are, apparently - that Michael was right that, for example, there are good groups dedicated to things like VMS or Perl or Emacs and it would be interesting to benefit from the knowledge of the folks in those groups. My proposal - curious to see if anyone objects - is to post the general comp stuff here, stuff for which no dedicated newsgroup exists. But when there's a better group, to post it there and post a 'flag' here. Let's say there's a good article about emacs (not a hypothetical question, just saw one on Hacker News today). I post it in comp.emacs, and then in comp.misc simply post a flag stating the article's title and in which group it was posted. One neat thing about Usenet is that there are so many dedicated groups out there. That same thing can be a weakness in that it's useful to have a place like this (or misc.news.scitech, cough cough) where people interested in all or any of those specific topics can meet, and where stuff that's more general and not necessarily germane to another particular group can be alerted to the discussion. What do you think? There was a good thread that led to a collection of good tech-related groups. If everyone wants to give this a try, that's probably the list of groups with which I'd start.
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Re: Slashcott enters second week ? "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 17:52 +0100
Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 19:56 +0000
Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-03-02 14:15 -0600
Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-02 23:47 +0000
Re: Posting to other tech groups, flag to comp.misc Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-02 20:46 +0000
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