>From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@cas.org>
>How bad would it really be to close up shop?
What sort of Close up shop?
- We stop moderating News.answers? and let the spamers move in..
- We rmgroup *.answers as being from a kinder gentler nettime and let folks
just wander arround cycberspace looking for information.
- We stop activly moderating, and let the old-timers still follow the magic
that gets an FAQ out, and teach new FAQ maintainers how - on the sly- to post
to *.answers
- We trust that http://Google.com will be profitable enough that you can just
do Google searches for all the info we need.
- We decide that the End of usenet really is near and declare that we will
rmgroup the entire thing (except perhaps for the Binaries) on Jan 1, 2002
I am not a perl wonk, nor do I have any server, so I can't offer to help fix
the Autoposter. I have my FAQs their also so I hope that it does not fail
too much.
I would ask that anyone who can provide a autoposter, with a dedicated feed
to one of the MIT news machines. (Should just need to feed *.answers to MIT
so that the rtfm server will catch it, and if it is on an MIT newsserver it
will propagate as well as can be expected.) come forward if they want to
assist in keeping this tradition going. I assume that the existing MIT
software could be obtained by another site.
As far as the fact that modern newsprograms are tricky to use in posting an
FAQ, that is due to the fact that *.answers is a moderated group, and the
stanadrd way to post a FAQ is in fact to bypass the normal moderation
mechanism. This would be at best poor netique if done to another group, or
if done by someone who has not received approval from the *.answers
moderators. because it is a "Hack" to post to news answers we should be very
grateful that the standard clients are making it more difficult, or we would
find *.answers full of posts that did not belong there
The Moderator problem is being worked on as far as we know. We will have to
wait and try to go slow until the new folks are up to speed.
The systems at MIT have not had major software updats as far as I know in
many years. They represent state of the usenet art from 5-10 years ago. We
should be grateful that they have not been turfed out as a source of trouble
and confusion long ago. We should all thank Kent for keeping FAQs.org
running so well to deal with the "other end" of getting information out.
Charles MacDonald - Labour Information Management
Really not speaking for anyone but myself.
< My own Opinion unless Otherwise Credited >
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