From: FruityPaste@webtv.net (Fruity Paste)
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Subject: new group
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:54:10 -0500 (EST)
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hi everyone, except garrison. i was thinking, what would everyone think
if i started an e-mail based newsgroup that you had to sign up for.
Everything actually related to obe or just stories that are interesting
and you wanted to share could be shared in a stress free invironment.
all nesty critisism would be filtered out so you wouldn't even have to
bother. Does that sound like a good idea. and then on top of that...
every single one of the messeages can be stored so that if you read
something a long time ago and you want to go back and find it.. it is
there. what do you guys think???
Karolina
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From: Neil Franklin
Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body
Subject: Re: new group
Date: 28 Nov 1999 23:19:25 +0100
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FruityPaste@webtv.net (Fruity Paste) writes:
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> hi everyone, except garrison.
:-)
> i was thinking, what would everyone think
> if i started an e-mail based newsgroup that you had to sign up for.
That would be a mailing list, not a newgroup.
Note that I am on 3 such lists and actually run the machine one of
them is on (an office mate runs the list content).
> Everything actually related to obe or just stories that are interesting
> and you wanted to share could be shared in a stress free invironment.
> all nesty critisism would be filtered out so you wouldn't even have to
> bother. Does that sound like a good idea. and then on top of that...
Good for the nerves, but bad for spontanity. The problem consists of
the "filtered out" bit requiring that all posts go to a person (the
moderator) who then has to kill/accept them. So they all stay laying
in that persons mailbox, until they are online the next time.
So it is not possible to discuss at more than 1 answer per online session
of the moderator. In all cases where this has been done, it has resulted
in delays and so a lack of the spontanity that makes Usenet news so good.
The best recommendation I can give you is to simply ignore the bad
posts. They are part of life, just like rude people are. Turn them a
blank eye.
I do not know if a WebTV has an killfile/auto-delete feature to
delete them before you even get to see em. But I would assume it to
have one (the software is an adaption of IE4, which has such feature).
> every single one of the messeages can be stored so that if you read
> something a long time ago and you want to go back and find it.. it is
> there.
That can also be done with news (and is being done). For alt.o-o-b try:
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.out-of-body/
Note that I only store "good" threads, that is them that add new and
usefull stuff (in a sense the archive is moderated, not the discussion).
> what do you guys think???
A good intention, which in the real world simply does not fly.
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