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

["Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of William Beaty
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:24 PM
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> 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@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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