Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <35F926F2.23FFCC53@pbm.com>, "Scott R. Turner" <srt@pbm.com> wrote:
>(And please don't respond that you don't want to create a new newsgroup
>because
>no one will read it.  Of course they won't.  No one wants to read a
>newsgroup
>filled with advertisements.  THAT'S THE POINT.)

Actually, they might.  We could give it a shot, except I'm not
sure there are enough people here to make a vote fly.  (Do NOT,
anyone, start replying with "I'd vote...  Me too...  Me too."
There are already enough of those archived for posterity in
Dejanews.)

On the other hand, if we proselytized in some of the other
groups, say, the rec.games.frp.* hierarchy and whatever the
corresponding strategy gaming groups are, we might get enough
in favor there.  And, of course, the Phoenyx lists.  Heck,
pbem-announce has got 200 users all by itself.  I can probably
rouse a good chunk of them, even if they've never heard of
Usenet.  Heh.

I'm thinking rec.games.pbm.discussion and rec.games.pbm... er,
.advertising would be bad, or you'd end up with the same
spam-collector situation as rec.games.frp.industry, which gets
ads for industrial pipe fittings and whatnot.  I'd have to check
my .newsrc for naming precedents, I suppose.  Maybe
rec.games.pbm.openings would work.

(Egad.  You *know* the argument has gotten repetitive when *I'm*
thinking of starting up a newgroup process to get rid of it...)

--  Karen Cravens      | Phoenyx PBeM RPG Listserver: majordomo@phoenyx.net
    silver@phoenyx.net | http://www.phoenyx.net/
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References

Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
"Scott R. Turner" <srt@pbm.com>
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000