Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[THUFIR HAWAT]

oops, can i retract my tone, please?

a private news server is fine :)


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Thufir Hawat


----- Original Message -----
From: "THUFIR HAWAT" <thufir.hawat(a)mail.com&gt;
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 07:55:16 +0000

>  
>  this is absolutely the crux of the issue; the quantity of this list 
>  itself is spam.
>  
>  you haven't established that enforcement of the "be nice" policy is 
>  required, though.  there're plenty of technical news groups which are 
>  alive and well; their existence serves as a counter example that "be 
>  nice" has to be enforcable.
>  
>  ok, let's work from the premise that the "be nice" policy (good 
>  choice of words) has to be enforcable.  is enforcement compatible 
>  with nntp, or, can it be made compatible?  even if they're they're 
>  incompatible, to not use nntp is to throw the baby out with the 
>  bathwater.
>  
>  what are the goals here? minimize spam, maximize community 
>  involvement (quantity and quality of the material) *and* good 
>  archiving, so that questions don't repeatedly come up.
>  
>  --
>  Thufir Hawat
>  
>  
>  //////////////cut and paste from archive////////////////////
>  Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
>  
>       * From: Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>
>       * To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>       * Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
>       * Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:49:04 -0500
>  [..]
>  In order to keep spam down, and to institute unique policies ("be nice",
>  say), it's probably best to have a private news server rather than public
>  newsgroups.
>  
>  
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Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:09:00AM +0000, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
>  oops, can i retract my tone, please?
>  a private news server is fine :) 
:)

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