RE: New list? Was Re: [TCML] Threadkill -- RQ Non-coiling stuff

[Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, Gary's right.  I think I'm going to let someone else set up and run
another list/forum for non-coiling type talk.  I just don't have the time
and want to preserve the bandwidth that I have.  

It would be nice to know what ends up happening so we the moderators can
just say "this discussion should be moved to <whatever that list will be>.

Chip
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Lau, Gary wrote:

> I couldn't agree more!  But as Chip is unlikely to be involved in a
> Tesla_gossip_and_hero_worship forum, it doesn't seem that he would be
> the one to suggest a specific venue.
> 
> As far as fracturing the membership, I think splitting between the
> science-based on the current TCML and all else that would be rejected
> here on the new forum makes sense and is what everyone wants.
> 
> As to which venue - if you build it, they will come.  Let us know what
> you choose.  And if the mechanics of that forum prove unsatisfactory,
> a short discussion by participants on that forum should be able to
> choose a different forum.
> 
> Regards, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of William Beaty
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:24 PM
> > To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: New list? Was Re: [TCML] Threadkill -- RQ Non-coiling stuff
> >
> > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > > boils down to judgement calls in many circumstances.
> >
> > Certainly.
> >
> > However, if we could agree to choose a single existing forum, where TCML
> > threads could be moved, then your decisions would never need to be harsh.
> > Supposing that "USA-TESLA" or one of those yahoo groups was the list
> > always used for this, then you'd never have to do things like block TCML
> > users from talking with RQ about his recent life events.
> >
> > Obviously we can all contact him for private news.  But then he has to
> > respond to five or ten (or fifty?) people separately.  And those who'd
> > rather just listen in cannot do so.  TCML community isn't in on the talk,
> > and the whole point of having a forum and an online group is lost in
> > that particular case.
> >
> > In other words...  Jeeze, this is the internet, and if half of a group
> > really wants to talk with someone, while the other half doesn't, we don't
> > have to side with just one half, instead it's trivial to do both.
> >
> > And about all those weirdo topics that Chip *wants* to kill, he of course
> > would still have that option:  either telling everyone "take this to the
> > group TCML-bar-and-grill@yahoo," or telling everyone that the thread is
> > dead.
> >
> > Thinking further...  BBS forums rarely have a single section, instead
> > they'll have a central area, plus a "how do I unsubscribe" technical
> > channel, plus an unmoderated "joe's tavern" where the whole community can
> > hobnob about anything.  Take for example THE STRAIGHT DOPE science board.
> > Of course it wouldn't make sense for this email-only forum to have *NINE*
> > sections like straighdope/sdmb/.  But what about a single, perhaps even
> > unofficial/unmoderated, "joe's tavern" feature?
> >
> > Then there's the slippery slope! :)  Add a TCML-announce list for people
> > who want to hear about Teslathons, but who can't stand the high traffic of
> > the main list.  But you know where that will lead.  Soon the subscribers
> > on TCML-oiltank-secondaries will get into a huge fight with the people on
> > TCML-rebuild-wardenclyffe, while TCML-IGBT-watercooled laughs and laughs.
> >
> >
> >
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> > William J. Beaty                http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/
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