12 Sep
2003
12 Sep
'03
7:11 a.m.
Hi Jules,
You're going to hate me for this... but... why?
There are already usenet
groups
for different machines which work perfectly well.
There's classiccmp as a
central resource for questions. Doesn't another forum just dilute things
even
further? I certainly don't have time to read
classiccmp, newsgroups, and
several web forums as I doubt do many others.
True there are NG's & lists like these, but NG's are mostly unmoderated &
oft times conversations degenerate into flame wars & name calling.
The problem with a general-purpose list (like classiccmp) is that sometimes
you have to wade thru a lot of posts to find something you're interested in.
For example, there's a lot of discussion on PDP's on this list, a machine
that I have no interest in, and I spend quite some time culling these posts
out to find the ones I'm interested in (for the record: CP/M, obscure
operating systems, CBM PETs & MSX machines). The gems do turn up from time
to time in amongst all the other stuff :-)
If you must run a forum too, I suggest you make sure that posts to your
forums
are mirrored on the classicmp list and vice-versa
automatically - for the
good
of the hobby and all that. Although given the way the
web forum is split
up
into different sections I'm not sure how you'd
do that without user
intervention :-(
Not a good idea - think of the moderation problems :-)
cheers,
Lance
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