Re: What this list is

By starting another group, you fragment and even more knowledge will be lost. Todd made a few suggestions and perhaps we should start to introduce more continental subjects and move away from concentrating on gateway ancestries.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas


----- Original Message ----- From: "Renia" <renia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: What this list is


Todd A. Farmerie wrote:


Creating a new group of limited distribution with a confusing name is not likely to get people to post somewhere else (and even if it did, would not suddenly engender more medieval discussion).

Likewise, as was discussed at length when the soc.gen.* groups were formed, some ballance must be achieved between splitting and lumping together. I think the perfect groups would be soc.genealogy.only-what-interests-me, but there would be only one participant. Groups with too narrow an interest (both in terms of topic and in terms of willing posters) will not 'take', and there are any number of dead groups to prove it.

For several reasons, this group has come more and more to be dominated by discussions of a few rather limited aspects of its original charter scope. There used to be several Iberian posters, discussions of Viking origins, posters with significant knowledge of Polish and Russian material, etc., but this is no longer the case. The problem is not so much the presence of the 'fringe' topics, but the loss of these central ones.


I disagree. I think it is the domination of American Gateway ancestors which has pushed many non-Americans off the newsgroup. From this side of the pond, it is just too American. No way is American immigration in the 17th century a medieval subject. It is early modern.



> However, creating another group for everyone posting about things
I am less interested in will not purify the group, nor will the vacuum theoretically so created by banishing the unwanted discussion bring these lost topics and posters back. If you want more medieval discussion in this group, then post more medieval material.


There are not enough people here interested in medieval material any more, as you imply, below, regarding Stewart Baldwin's Henry Project pages.


> Part of the
burden of making the group what you want it to be falls on you. You really can't make other people discuss what you want, all you can do is entice them with your own postings.

In other groups where an analogous compilation is underway, such an announcement as Stewart Baldwin's release of new Henry Project pages might be followed by various members picking over the new pages, making comments and corrections, suggesting additional sources or alternative interpretations worthy of commentary, etc. Here all we get are "Thanks" posts (here we are a week later, and no one, present company included until now, has even commented that there is someone represented as the wrong gender on one of the new pages). Yes, thanks are due, but if you want to discuss medieval genealogy, here is a perfect opportunity staring you in the face, and . . . . nothing.

taf


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: What this list is
    ... Groups with too narrow an interest (both in terms of topic and in terms of willing posters) will not 'take', and there are any number of dead groups to prove it. ... I think it is the domination of American Gateway ancestors which has pushed many non-Americans off the newsgroup. ... In other groups where an analogous compilation is underway, such an announcement as Stewart Baldwin's release of new Henry Project pages might be followed by various members picking over the new pages, making comments and corrections, suggesting additional sources or alternative interpretations worthy of commentary, etc. ...
    (soc.genealogy.medieval)
  • Download Full Movies |*** 1992 ***| Watch Movies Online
    ... American Heart ... Death and the Compass ... Eyes of the Beholder ... Lost in New York ...
    (comp.unix.internals)
  • ***1992*** Movie Downloads, Reviews, Trailers ...
    ... American Heart ... Death and the Compass ... Eyes of the Beholder ... Lost in New York ...
    (rec.outdoors.camping)
  • Re: Too Much Consensus in the UK?
    ... American AUE posters interact, there's sometimes this practice of verbal ... Not the worst things, but they *might* point to some problems in UK culture, ...
    (alt.usage.english)
  • Re: Olympics to Rio
    ... Someone who's apparently never lived in Chicago. ... cheering the loss, Glenn Beck's "this is so SWEET!", the American ... Does anyone realize this is not about Obama? ... you want, but we lost jobs, we lost revenue, we lost infrastructure ...
    (alt.smokers.cigars)