And some of the lessons of group creation on USENET was: 1. You don't create a sub-topic to try to generate discussion. So for example you don't create talk.baseball.redsox because no one ever posts about the redsox in talk.baseball. It doesn't work. Not really relevant here tho it might become relevant. 2. You create a sub-topic to split large amounts of traffic like when there's just too much talk about the redsox and yankees in talk.baseball so you create talk.baseball.redsox and talk.redsox.yankees so those discussions can find each other. It's generally best when you're trying to split an overflow of traffic rather than enumerate or classify it or enforce some policy. 3. You don't create a sub-topic because some people don't want to see certain posts like talk.baseball.fights hoping to draw talk of on-field fights off talk.baseball. I think what's going on here is #3 mostly trying to pose as #2 and probably is unwise because it probably won't work plus or minus how much one can try to force the occasional off-topic poster off the list or to shame them. That is, people will seek their audience. P.S. Getto was a (mostly involuntary) Jewish neighborhood in Venice, Italy which is where the term Ghetto derives. I've been there (voluntarily.) "Getto" means "foundry" in Italian, it was a less desirable area because of the foundry there. On March 20, 2021 at 22:04 jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss, NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something).
there used to be a thing called USENET.
it facilitated a forum-like interface to mailing-lists, with the ability for anyone to create their own sub-forums.
it was quite popular for a while.
--jim
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