emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar18.221702.11225@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:
Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.d
The purpose of the newsgroup is to give the community a forum for discussions
relating to archives and archiving topics.
Kent,
Given the possible (real) concern of a "comp.archives.d" turning into
another "comp.sources.d" or "comp.sources.wanted", perhaps a different
name (with the same charter more or less) is in order. As a strawman
I propose one of
Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.admin
Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.managers
by analogy with comp.unix.admin or sun-managers / decstation-managers,
e.g. policy, strategy, and tactics, geared toward providers of the
service rather than users, polite, sensible, etc. That gives it a
little more direction than just ".d" which leaves the question of the
target audience rather nebulous. The one line blurb for news.lists:
comp.archives.admin Administering an archive site.
comp.archives.managers Managing an archive site.
not
comp.archives.d Discussions about postings in comp.archives.
a la the other .d groups, not true in this case since comp.archives
discussions get fed back into the original newsgroup by design.
Alternatively an "archive-managers" mailing list would be suitable,
though not equally so (mail bad, news good).
I get dibs on the comp.archives namespace :-), since there are some
other possible groups along the same lines which might have reasonable
homes there.
--
Msen Edward Vielmetti
/|--- moderator, comp.archives
emv@msen.comnelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/22/91)
In article <EMV.91Mar22000953@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
Alternatively an "archive-managers" mailing list would be suitable,
though not equally so (mail bad, news good).
I tried running one for a while (archivists@sun.soe.clarkson.edu), but
no one used it, so I nuked it. Perhaps people would use a newsgroup
more...
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I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (03/22/91)
In article <EMV.91Mar22000953@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: | Given the possible (real) concern of a "comp.archives.d" turning into | another "comp.sources.d" or "comp.sources.wanted", perhaps a different | name (with the same charter more or less) is in order. As a strawman | I propose one of | | Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.admin | Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.managers I think the admin is a good name. If the name should describe the topic of the group, then the topic is administration, not the managers themselves. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode, but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"
kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) (03/25/91)
In article <EMV.91Mar22000953@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
#
# Given the possible (real) concern of a "comp.archives.d" turning into
# another "comp.sources.d" or "comp.sources.wanted", perhaps a different
# name (with the same charter more or less) is in order. As a strawman
# I propose one of
#
# Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.admin
# Newsgroup Name: comp.archives.managers
#
Well, what's in a name ? :-)
This is definitely a needed change. It did not occur to me that
it could become another comp.sources.wanted due to the name but
in second light...
# comp.archives.admin Administering an archive site.
I prefer c.a.admin myself. It is descriptive since the reason for
the RFD was to generate a newsgroup for discussion of archive
administration issues. Now how do we change the RFD to reflect the
new name ? Issue another ... :-)
-Kent+
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