ADMIN: What if ClassicCmp were a blog? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 2003

On Jan 16, 13:21, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
...
  >From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
 >
 >On Jan 15, at various times, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
 >
 >> In my quest to cover every aspect, to think about every permutation of
 >what
 >> ClassicCmp *could* be in the future, I have yet another question to ask
...
  >> ClassicCmp subscribers: What if ClassicCmp
were a weblog, in the style of
...
  >> Slashdot or Kuro5hin?
 >
 >I have to add my vote to the many others who've said "NO!!!"
 >
 >>   - Posting and reading of messages would be doable from a web browser.
...
  >An
 >>     email interface could be developed, but it wouldn't be the primary
 >>     method of participation.
 >
 >I would hate that.
 >
 >>   - You would have an account with a username and password.
 >
 >Right, I need another username/password (likely with different rules to all
...
  the rest) like
I need another hole in my head :-)

 ---snip---

  I see no particular advantage to using a browser for the
 use of this group. If one looks at the attempts with something
 as global as news groups, we would be quickly trashed with
 hundreds of "Please fix my PCee" stuff from those that have
 little interest in classic machines. 
For those who weren't there, that was exactly what happened to
alt.computer.hardware.homebuilt.  Skipping over the long tale of woe, the
upshot was that a new, moderated, group was created (comp.arch.hobbyist).
 Sadly, that sees little traffic as the interested parties seem to have
moved to greener and more diverse pastures altogether (some of them, to
this list).

I hope we don't try to be an elitist mailing list, but lets not invite
trouble.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York