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Re: The meeting on Wednesday



On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:

> |maybe base the split on subjects and not expertease?
> 
> I'd stress the "maybe" a little more.  What if someone can't configure
> his X11?  Is that a hardware or a software question?  What about bad
> disk blocks?  What's "misc".

for questions you DON'T know where to post... like if they concern all or 
non of the others. jeez.

look, I am coming from the world of BBSs. on Fidonet you have dozens to 
hundreds of areas, and like usenet, there are posters and there are 
crossposters, but that's a much rarer ocasion because there is a good 
description in the name, there is a moderator to direct you, and there 
are usually guidlines posted weekly. this is the ONLY way this will work 
propperly.

I hope to be online in 2-3 monthes, but the list/lists should work before 
THIS monday! don't you see? people! we have to have a stable mailing 
list, well maintaind for this show, we can split it later, to 10 lists 
for all I care, but just make it stable!

> What about splitting things to "expert" and "newbie"?
how about both?

let's look at how the Internet mechanisms solved it..

(kineret is poor with groups, but here goes)
alt.os.linux                         alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
comp.os.linux.advocacy               comp.os.linux.announce
comp.os.linux.answers                comp.os.linux.development.apps
comp.os.linux.development.system     comp.os.linux.hardware
comp.os.linux.m68k                   comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.networking             comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.x                      linux.admin.isp

not to mention kernel dev and security etc. on mailing lists.

most of these don't apply, but it gives a general direction.

> I'm not saying that your suggestion for a plit is totally out of the
> question, but my point is that, *currently*, we don't know enough to
> decide how to split, and if we do it wrong then the list will die.
no it won't. it will fork and if one of the lists prooves itself useless, 
we will join it back into the master list...

> Just let's let things flow and see what should be done (this is the
> Zen aproach, isn't it? :-).

that's the 'oops, why didn't we come prepared?' approach to me.


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