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- The results are below. Unfortunately, there was no clear winner.
- Things can generally be divided into two camps: those who want
- the mailing list to only exist for those people with some sort of
- access problem, and those who want the mailing list to serve a separate
- purpose from the newsgroup. These two ideas aren't at all compatible.
-
- Let me say at this point what will be set up. There WILL be an archive
- of the newsgroup, with a Web interface, maintained at this site. I'm
- in the process of setting it up now. So it will be possible for people
- with no access to usenet to READ the stuff thru the web.
-
- Now for my opinion. Traffic thus far on the newsgroup has been light.
- While there has been a lot of noise, this will be reduced as soon as an
- FAQ is ready, and as soon as people stop seeing the newgroup message.
- Hopefully this will be more true here than in other groups because they
- (newbies) will have the thrill of reading the FAQ thru the web, so they
- can play with the software rather than annoy us with questions.
-
- I very much agree with the notion that for a successful web, we have to
- get the newbies involved. As it is, the mailing list is seeing some of
- this anyway, and I think the mailing list is to big to handle. If
- we really really want separate channels for such discussions, I'd suggest
- we do one of the following:
-
- 1. add another (moderated) newsgroup - comp.infosystems.www.tech
- (who wants to moderate it?)
- or
- 2. create a separate mailing list for same.
-
- comments?
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-
- >Proposal 1.
- > No gateway, let the mailing list die.
- > Vote here if you are planning on reading the newsgroup and unsubscribing
- > from the mailing list. Note that there will be at least a one-direction
- > gateway; I just wonder how may people won't care if it is there.
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- 12 votes
-
- >Proposal 2.
- > Bi-directional gateway.
- > Vote here if you have no USENET access whatsoever and want to use the
- > mailing list as an interface to the newsgroup
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- 9 votes
-
- >Proposal 3.
- > One-directional gateway. (from mailing list to newsgroup)
- > Vote here if you can read USENET, but not post, or if you want the
- > mailing list to become a small subset of the newsgroup, so you won't
- > have to read the newsgroup.
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- 1 vote
-
- >Proposal 4.
- > One-directional gateway plus newsgroup archiving under the Web.
- > Vote here for a compromise between Prop 2 and Prop 3.
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- 9 votes
-
- >Proposal 5.
- > One and a half directional gateway. Articles are sent from mailing
- > list to newsgroup. Digests of articles are sent from newsgroup to
- > mailing list.
- > Vote here if for reasons I can't imagine. Well, maybe if you
- > are a uucp site, with no USENET or Web access. Yuck.
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- 2 votes
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