New list? Was Re: [TCML] Threadkill -- RQ Non-coiling stuff

[Clive Hansen]

Hello Everyone,
    I am thinking of starting a forum, group, or mailing list for all 
the semi Tesla related discussions that are shut down here. If anyone 
thinks that they would be interested in a forum of this flavour please 
let me know.

-Clive

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> Yep, Gary's right.  I think I'm going to let someone else set up and run
> another list/forum for non-coiling type talk.  I just don't have the time
> and want to preserve the bandwidth that I have.  
>
> It would be nice to know what ends up happening so we the moderators can
> just say "this discussion should be moved to <whatever that list will be>.
>
> Chip
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Lau, Gary wrote:
>
>   
>> I couldn't agree more!  But as Chip is unlikely to be involved in a
>> Tesla_gossip_and_hero_worship forum, it doesn't seem that he would be
>> the one to suggest a specific venue.
>>
>> As far as fracturing the membership, I think splitting between the
>> science-based on the current TCML and all else that would be rejected
>> here on the new forum makes sense and is what everyone wants.
>>
>> As to which venue - if you build it, they will come.  Let us know what
>> you choose.  And if the mechanics of that forum prove unsatisfactory,
>> a short discussion by participants on that forum should be able to
>> choose a different forum.
>>
>> Regards, Gary Lau
>> MA, USA
>>
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: tesla-bounces at pupman.com [mailto:tesla-bounces at pupman.com] On
>>> Behalf Of William Beaty
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:24 PM
>>> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: New list? Was Re: [TCML] Threadkill -- RQ Non-coiling stuff
>>>
>>> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Chip Atkinson wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> boils down to judgement calls in many circumstances.
>>>>         
>>> Certainly.
>>>
>>> However, if we could agree to choose a single existing forum, where TCML
>>> threads could be moved, then your decisions would never need to be harsh.
>>> Supposing that "USA-TESLA" or one of those yahoo groups was the list
>>> always used for this, then you'd never have to do things like block TCML
>>> users from talking with RQ about his recent life events.
>>>
>>> Obviously we can all contact him for private news.  But then he has to
>>> respond to five or ten (or fifty?) people separately.  And those who'd
>>> rather just listen in cannot do so.  TCML community isn't in on the talk,
>>> and the whole point of having a forum and an online group is lost in
>>> that particular case.
>>>
>>> In other words...  Jeeze, this is the internet, and if half of a group
>>> really wants to talk with someone, while the other half doesn't, we don't
>>> have to side with just one half, instead it's trivial to do both.
>>>
>>> And about all those weirdo topics that Chip *wants* to kill, he of course
>>> would still have that option:  either telling everyone "take this to the
>>> group TCML-bar-and-grill at yahoo," or telling everyone that the thread is
>>> dead.
>>>
>>> Thinking further...  BBS forums rarely have a single section, instead
>>> they'll have a central area, plus a "how do I unsubscribe" technical
>>> channel, plus an unmoderated "joe's tavern" where the whole community can
>>> hobnob about anything.  Take for example THE STRAIGHT DOPE science board.
>>> Of course it wouldn't make sense for this email-only forum to have *NINE*
>>> sections like straighdope/sdmb/.  But what about a single, perhaps even
>>> unofficial/unmoderated, "joe's tavern" feature?
>>>
>>> Then there's the slippery slope! :)  Add a TCML-announce list for people
>>> who want to hear about Teslathons, but who can't stand the high traffic of
>>> the main list.  But you know where that will lead.  Soon the subscribers
>>> on TCML-oiltank-secondaries will get into a huge fight with the people on
>>> TCML-rebuild-wardenclyffe, while TCML-IGBT-watercooled laughs and laughs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Clive Hansen
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