28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
6:03 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
Read the proposal. It isn't strictly a separate
list. It is a list
connected by a one-way umbilical cord to the current list. It can't be
done by just creating another list. It has to be done on the current
server. Whether the list software is malleable enough to be shaped to the
task, I do not know. I am leaving it to others to comment on the
technical issue. The idea is to experiment and create a parallel flood
channel for certain things that run hot for a couple of weeks but are not
completely on topic. I don't think this is a "bozo" idea, and I hope you
will ponder its implications for more than a few minutes.
I didn't comment on the merit of the idea, but nobody is going to do this
for you. AFAICT, the original list admin headed for Nirvana, SD a year or
so ago to become a Unix guru. The list is just free-floating in
cyberspace with nobody to maintain it. I'd like to experiment with some
listserver ideas myself someday, but there's no shortage of ideas, just a
shortage of implementation time. If you want to try something like you've
proposed, you'll have to do it yourself.
-- Doug