Need help reaching critical mass

Feb 17, 2008 1 Replies

For those here who are involved in Product Development, I would like to invite you to try out the newsgroup that I moderate: misc.business.product-dev -- a Usenet newsgroup about the Business of Product Development.



The group has been pretty much unused for a long time, but could become viable if I can attract a critical mass of users.



Right now I am screening posts to avoid spam, and setting the software to auto-approve any further posts by that user. This avoids posting delays after the user's first post.



If I can attract enough users to see the volume pick up, I will be looking for co-moderators. I have a simple web-based system that makes it easy to reject/approve posts.



There will be little or no rejection because of content; I just want to keep the newsgroup flooders and spammers out, and let people use their killfiles if they don't like what someone posts.



Also, unlike many other moderated newsgroups, I allow crossposts to one unmoderated newsgroup, so you can post something that is about FORTH and Product Development in comp.lang.forth and misc.business.product-dev if you wish.



Alas, I can't allow crossposts to moderated newsgroups because such posts get approved for both newsgroups when one moderator approves them, which would be rude to the other moderator.


misc.business.product-dev: a Usenet newsgroup about the Business of Product Development. -- Guy Macon

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As one who is already linked into that group I too would welcome seeing more postings there.

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