Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Fr=E5n: Alfred Breull=20 >=20 > If you cannot handle the trafic, try some days without the LUG - till > the first withdrawal symptoms. >=20 - ------------- There must be a better way. Can I make a vague (as usual) suggestion.=20 First let me give an example of traffic handling on the Amateur Radio Nets. Lets take the maritime mobile nets of which I am familier.=20 There can be over 200 boaters on ONE frequency directed by a net controller. The important point is that when a discussion develops between only a few hams on a subject not of general interest, the net controller asks them to move to another frequency. Quite often, the net controller misjudges what is interesting to the majority (maybe its a slanging match), and the whole 200 (say) move frequency with them. Ghouls. Of course they later, when the battle is over, have a good moan about the wasted bandwidth. End of example. We have a similar situation on the LUG with calls to take certain discussions to private e-mail. However this in most cases is impossible unless it is only beween two people, and that is rare. And in any case nobody else can follow them, even with the complication of cc's. The discussion therefore tends to stay on this list. So the whole LUG has to read/delete a conversation that is not of general interest. My suggestion is this, We need a LUG2 list. Instead of going to private e-mail the paricipants can move to LUG2. It could be set up, probably in digest form and loaded down in parallel with LUG1. Those that choose to follow a narrow interest discussion can read LUG2 or delete it with one keystroke. Are there any other solutions? With 700 subscribers and growing, there will soon be a problem. Alan Hull (who is) Part of the problem.