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- From: mg@acpub.duke.edu (Michael Grubb)
- Newsgroups: triangle.freenet
- Subject: Re: More on discussion groups
- Message-ID: <8953@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:13:22 GMT
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- Distribution: triangle
- Organization: Duke University Computer ASSIST Center
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- Originator: mg@cambot.ac.duke.edu
-
- John Whitehead writes:
-
- > Judy Hallman writes:
- >
- > >It seems to me that we want to post to rtpfreenet, ALL meeting
- > >announcements, minutes of all meetings, and general information, and that
- > >we want to encourage lots of discussion about details on the tf-tech,
- > >tf-ops, tf-data, tf-fund, and tf-pub lists. It makes sense to me to
- > >automatically forward ALL the postings to triangle.freenet. In which case
- > >we would NOT want to forward from triangle.freenet to rtpfreenet.
- >
- > I disagree. I agree that all postings from rtpfreenet should go to
- > triangle.freenet, but I also think that everything on triangle.freenet
- > should go to rtpfreenet. Otherwise the people on the mailing list will
- > still have to keep up with the newsgroup, and people who prefer the
- > newsgroup will not be heard by the mailing list-only people. The whole
- > point of this should be that they are the same thing, so anyone can
- > choose which format they want to use without missing any info.
- >
- > But the tf-* lists need not be gated to triangle.freenet.
- >
-
- I agree 100% with John. All posts to rtpfreenet and triangle.freenet
- should be gatewayed both ways, so that posting to one will get it
- automatically posted on the other. Even more importantly, I think
- it would be a crying shame to gateway the tf-* discussion lists to
- triangle.freenet. There is a palpable difference between the type
- of discussion you can get from a small group of activists working
- amongst themselves or in full public view. We'll get a lot more
- done without the various discussion participants having to worry about
- what they're saying in a wide-area public forum. Let triangle.freenet
- (and rtpfreenet) be for public announcements, and let the tf-*
- discussion lists be open to all sorts of creative musings. After
- all, anyone who wants to can sign up for those lists, too.
-
- My $0.03 (after taxes).
-
- -- Mike Grubb
- <mg@acpub.duke.edu>
-