[KLUG Members] RE: great site to "get together" in

[Vernon Jenewein]

Well, since I sent that original e-mail I've gotten back several e-mails as 
you can see below.  If the bandwidth is 10X less, then what about 10 times 
the amout of email that is sent to each and every one??  Notice the long 
thread below.  and when someone else replies, it shall continue to grow 
almost like a chain letter. *S*

The site I mentioned, p-two.net is run/moderated by a person named Bern.  
He runs Linux exclusively, and it is not dotted with a lot of non esential 
stuff about Winows in it's various forms, or other things modems, 
overclocking, etc.. it is basically just Linux.  That why I thought there 
might be some interest in this one particular forum site.  Plus, before you 
enter the forum site, there is pertitent information regarding Linux in the 
news.  Maybe no one is interested??

Cheers!

Vernon



On Friday 26 April 2002 11:44 am, you wrote:


> * Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> > >>Hi!
> > >
> > >Hi!
> >
> > Hi!
>
> Hi!
>
> > Any e-mail client worth its salt can do this for you.  Also the
> > "community" aspect of a LUG means I *do* read the messages that don't
> > 'pertain' to me, and offer assistance if I can.  The someone else reads
> > my message that doesn't 'pertain' to them, etc...  I think a forum site
> > actually makes this more difficult as you have to "find" the messages,
> > where as a mail client says "Here are the new ones".
>
> I've certainly learned a lot just by lurking.
>
> > I'm certainly not opposed to forums, but in my experience they only
> > work when the topic is very directed/specific AND they are closed to
> > the public.  The "effort" it takes to join a mailing list helps keep
> > the signal-to-noise ratio better.  Witness your average thread on
> > Slashdot, mostly rambling garbage,  people discussing the same thing
> > under various different posts, almost useless as a method of collecting
> > information.
>
> I envy these peoples free time. I think I read /. at +2 and there is
> still 95% garbage.
>
> > Maybe a NNTP-to-SMTP gateway at some point in the future,  then you
> > wouldn't have to receive every message but could browse them with a
> > news reader.
>
> We had talked about that. Maybe we should look at doing that again?
>
> > If the message count is annoying we do have a digest mode,  and the
> > list archives are browseable on the web site.
>
> Browseable and searchable!
>
> > Yes, and once you've learned something you can present on that topic to
> > KLUG. :)  Sort of a pay-back.
>
> Well, since I am emotionally bankrupt I may as well owe KLUG! 8-P

-- 
Vernon Jenewein
jenefarm@i2k.com