Re: That other HV List

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Original poster: "Chip Atkinson by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chip-at-pupman-dot-com>

Overall, I don't mind having a separate list for different things.  The
one problem that I've seen is dilution.  You have a list that is rather
specific so that there are only about 10 people on it.  Then there aren't
enough postings to generate interest/postings and the list kind of dies
out.  That happened with the laster list that I set up a while back.
There just wasn't enough traffic and it is basically idle.

 From what I know, it seems like a good approach to have just a HV list and
then as traffic gets more specific and can be split off, into sub lists
then do it.  That way the traffic remains high and people are more
interested in posting.

I'm a big fan of moderated lists so I'd like to set it up as such.  If
there's someone who is willing to moderate it I could set it up.  Keep in
mind that moderating a list that is busy is a pretty big job (as Terry,
Storey, and I well know).
Chip

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Terry Fritz wrote:

 > Hi Pete,
 >
 > At 11:13 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
 >
 > >Terry,
 > >       I vote to allow all HV topics on this list. I'm interrested in TCs,
 > >induction coils, CW multipliers, Marx generators, and coin-crushers, and
 > >feel that there is enough commonality and cross-usefulness that it would
 > >be a good thing.
 >
 > No one is sure where the other list is at right at the moment ;-)  I guess
 > they are still talking about it...
 >
 > I have been allowing those other related high voltage topics lately.  The
 > key is that the regular "Tesla stuff" is not generating like 100+ post per
 > day, so there is "room" for the other stuff right now.  It has been no
 > problem at all really.  The problem would come if the traffic started to
 > really pick up and we start getting very large numbers of mails such that
 > no one could keep up (like me :o))  This spring was very tame compared to
 > previous years when early spring got like 70+ posts per day
 > consistently.  So I am just playing it all by ear...
 >
 > I would think that two lists would really be best.  I imagine most people
 > would sign up for both and notice little difference other than the reply to
 > addresses.  A problem with everything on one list might come in a year or
 > so when say the high voltage list really started to dominate things and
 > Tesla coilers felt they were "second".  Then we would have to kick them off
 > "our" list to another anyway :o))
 >
 > A true high voltage group could probably also use a true high voltage
 > moderator that was expert in the high voltage areas other than Tesla
 > coils.  There are many high voltage subjects that are pretty far removed
 > from Tesla coils and people that are expert there may not care about coils
 > =:O    Take the subject of "lifters".  That area has a lot of questions
 > that are pretty removed from what true coilers would care about.  And,
 > Lifter folks may have little interest in coils...  Two groups would easily
 > handle that situation.  Tesla coiling really is a small subset of the
 > "whole world" of high voltage.  Personally, I don't think mixing us with
 > the larger world on just one list is a good thing.  It is easy to sign up
 > for a few groups of interest, but hard to just filter everything of
 > interest coming in on just one list...
 >
 > If Chip wants to rule the whole world of high voltage (I know he does :o)),
 > I can see running a bunch of lists on say Tesla coils, lifters,
 > electrostatics, crushers....  And people could just sign onto a "check
 > list" of the ones they are specifically interested in...  Not sure how
 > messy that would be from his side, but it may be a cool way to work things.
 >
 >
 > In other news...  As part of Terry's project "Escape from Microsoft
 > products!!"  I am getting a Sun RAQ 550 server to "slowly" replace the
 > present hot-streamer-dot-com computer.  The new "big time" server would have
 > many cool features like handling pop3 accounts that could be changed fast
 > to slip away from spammers.  Thus, folks could use that for e-mails and not
 > worry with things like AOL problems...  And, "I" would not have to worry
 > stripping those "Stop spam now by getting MSN so you only get Microsoft
 > spam that spammers have to pay us to spam you with..." trailers...  It also
 > has DNS services so maybe people could have direct Tesla coil sites without
 > the "hot-streamer-dot-com" part in the URL.  If bandwidth were to "get bad" I
 > could also just ship the whole thing off to a "big time" server house for
 > wild bandwidths...  The RAQ also has full mail list capabilities
 > too >:o))  Still all a ways off, but things are going in that direction
 > here...  I have looked at servers for about a year now and Sun RAQ seems by
 > far the best choice for computer dummy "me" to run such things with ;-))  I
 > figure it is better to start things a year before hot-streamer blows up,
 > rather than 5 minutes after :o))  I also note that Pete works for Sun ;-))
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >
 >