Re: Adding Secondary High Voltage Mail List group ? ? ?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Chip,

There is a high voltage newsgroup alt.energy.high-voltage :

http://groups.google-dot-com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=alt.energy.high-voltage

Looks sort of slow.  News groups are always hard to keep up with.  There is 
also alt.mad.science but it hardly every gets posts.  It is just too obscure.

There is a high voltage yahoo group with only 24 members:
http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/high_voltage/

The Yahoo lifters group has 1334 members and seems to go very well:
http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/Lifters/

The rail guns and all other stuff group seems to be picking up:
http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/highvoltageiongunscoils/

Harvey's Teslafy group also seems to be going well:
http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/teslafy/

Yahoo is slow and has all those adds that really turns people (me at least) 
off.

Of course, there are three Tesla coil mailing lists.  TCML (us), Tesla-2 
(Mike's beginners list), and GTL (the German speaking list).

As far as I can tell,  Steve Roys HV-list homepage is down and I find very 
little on it.

So there is no nice mailing list HV-group.  Most people can't stand the 
unmoderated Usenet and the rest can't stand waiting for Yahoo's adds to pop 
up...  There may be a very nice niche open here!!   We often get interest 
in Marx generators (I usually let that go here too), Van de Graaff, 
coin/can crushers....  If things are not too busy we can tolerate a little 
on these, they mostly are off-topic here.  I do think there is enough 
interest in the other things to justify a second HV-list.

This list does not need much moderation since 98% of post go through now 
days.  Mostly technical issues like filtering mistaken posts and telling 
people how to subcribe/unsubscribe and all.  All of the "bad people" have 
been driven off ;-))  But I do think a mailing list does need a 
moderator.  Maybe more of a caretaker just to answer questions and just 
generally "be there" in case.  Of course, once it gets 1000's of people on 
it there will be times when real moderation is needed, but that should not 
be a problem at first.

My moderation these days is mostly stripping HTML, long sigs, and those 
"stop spam now by buying MSN as your ISP and using Windows bug free server 
2003 version 1.0..."  And the Yahoo e-mail "ADons"...  A dirty grimy task, 
but somebody hasta do it ;-))

I could moderate it unless someone else want's too.  I have no need to do 
two groups ;-))  If anyone else wants to do it they should definitely do 
it.  Of course, I know how and all the "stuff" to get it started too.

But I see Erik Shultz just volunteered :-))  Personally I would not do 
lasers since there are many other laser groups but I would do EMP if they 
were practical and not goffy stuff...  But not my problem :o))))

So I would say go ahead and set it up Chip and we'll see how it goes.  I 
think it will go well!!

Cheers,

         Terry


At 10:09 AM 5/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I could set something like this up if there is enough interest.  There are
>some logistics to consider: Moderation and if so, who? enough interest to
>keep the traffic high enough?
>"Charter" -- all non-TC traffic?
>Just some thoughts.  From my end, it's not too big a deal.
>At least a while back, Steve Roys had an HV list, but I don't know if it's
>still around.
>
>Chip
>
>On Sat, 3 May 2003, Mccauley, Daniel H wrote:
>
> > Terry, Chip, Group,
> >
> > I was wondering what the possibility was or if there is any interest in
> > adding another discussion category.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > 1.  Tesla Coil Maillist (what we currently have)
> > 2.  High Voltage Maillist (all general high voltage topics and non-tesla
> > coil hv applications)
> >
> > We have an absolutely incredible member / knowledge base on the pupman 
> group
> > and it seems a shame to limit this knowledge
> > base only to the primary discussion of tesla coils.  Most if not all the
> > members of the group have additional high voltage
> > interests that extend beyond tesla coils.   These other high voltage topics
> > may include high voltage power supplies / generators, pulse networks,
> > general high voltage design and theory, etc...
> >
> > One recent example, is the discussions regarding Marx generators.  Although
> > this topic has not been officially declared
> > offtopic and "killed" yet, it really has nothing to do with tesla coils and
> > is probably eventually destined to be "killed"
> > by one of the moderators.  However, there is much interest in this 
> topic and
> > would be an excellent topic to keep alive in a second high voltage mailing
> > list.  Members who don't really care about these offtopics can simply not
> > subscribe to this second list or vice versa.
> >
> > >From what i've seen so far, the list has been gradually evolving ever 
> since
> > its conception years ago.  Perhaps this is
> > just the next step!
> >
> > Let me know what you think!
> >
> > The Captain
> >
> >