Re: comp.os.vms to ITRC gateway ?
- From: helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply)
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:20:06 +0000 (UTC)
In article <a200d$47527fcc$cef8887a$14220@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
OK, some middle of the night in very cold weather just before a snow
storm idea:
Conceptually, how about a c.o.v to ITRC gateway, similar to the info-vax
gateway ? Posts made on any one of those gets propagated to the other ?
Why?
Granted, the ITRC moderators would have a bigger jobs of deleting all
the posts they judge to be inappropriate on an HP site, but in the end,
it would reduce the fragmentation of an already small community.
Why should they want the extra work?
Perhaps the ITRC gateway could be unidirectional (ITRC to c.o.v.) which
would eliminate the moderation work, but still allow people to benefit
from whatever disscussions happen over there (and especially since such
would get archived as c.o.v. posts in deja news (google).
This would make more sense, IF they could be properly formatted as
usenet posts readable and threadable in an ordinary newsreader.
Personally (and, coincidentally, I'm having an email conversation about
this right now involving other newsgroups and other forums), I don't
like forums. The commands, syntax, look and feel etc differ from forum
to forum, I need a (sometimes fancy) web browser, I can't write stuff in
EDT and it is not easy to kill entire threads.
To keep the noise level down, there are moderated newsgroups. Having
been a co-moderator of a newsgroup for a decade, once one gets things
properly set up it is definitely less work, from a technical point of
view, than moderating a forum.
A better goal, in my opinion, would be comp.os.vms.moderated, if there
really is a need to keep the noise level down. I would even volunteer
to moderate it! However, it would probably need 5--10 co-moderators to
keep the load on each one at a reasonable level.
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