Hi All, I have started a new google group 'spiceusers'
Thanks in advance.
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Regards,
Andrew.
I like your initiative, but I like to be invited by real persons.
circuit
Nothing against designers-guide, but I really don't like web forums. The information that is put on such a forum is very bound to the site and you have very little possibilibies to access the information through anything else but the web interface. And what happens if the owner of the site for some reason won't be able to maintain it?
In my opinion USENET is still, after all these years and all these "new" technologies, the best way of discussing on-line.
-- Svenn
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I agree with your point that usenet is the best way of doing this - but since the proposed group was a web group rather than a usenet group, I thought that it would be best to use the Designers Guide forum. None of these fora work unless there is a critical mass of people who read and respond.
The Designer's Guide site has been around for some time now, and is very active. There was talk of RSS feeds being supported too, which may help those who don't like web fora! (but that's not there yet...)
Andrew.
I disagree. USENET is too prone to scam. A moderated yahoo group with vetted membership is far better. You can choose to receive emails, a summary email or scan messages on line.
Ian
You obviously never had the pleasure of participating in a moderated USENET news group. Shows moderated yahoo groups to be a sloppy imitation. You can tel the difference by the signal to noise ratio.
-- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen Die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Shiller
That's stoopid, and contrary to the spirit of USENET.
The _point_ of USENET is that it's open to contributions from anyone on the planet who has a news server. It's about discussing ideas. It's the last bastion of pure anarchy, practically. And I'm using the true meaning of anarchy, which means, "nobody's in charge".
Follow-the-leader is for children.
And vetted, moderated groups are little cliques who deserve each other, so I leave them to themselves.
Thanks! Rich
-- Elect Me President in 2008! I will: A. Fire the IRS, and abolish the income tax B. Legalize drugs C. Stand down all military actions by the US that don\'t involve actual military aggression against US territory D. Declare World Peace I.
I've been in a few moderated Usenet groups. They're mostly little traveled and boring, though do have a high S/N. ...if that matters on a dead group. Spontenaity is also lost if the moderator isn't a 24/7 Usenet freak. OTOH, there is *no* web-based group that's worth bothering with.
How about product.development, or whatever it's called? ;-)
-- Keith
Spontenaity is easy to maintain, first most of the moderation is done with a robomoderator which is told all of the names of well behaved posters. Then all this traffic that does pass the robomoderator is posted. The traffic that does not goes to a group of humans to moderate, if there are several in all time zones around the world it works real well. Of course it is still a significant burden on the human moderators, probably 10 to 100 posts per day per moderator in a busy group.
-- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen Die Gotter Selbst, vergebens.
--Shiller
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