Re: charter
- From: Corinthian McVitie Keogh <divad.ddub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:08:44 -0000
Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sn!pe said:
> Corinthian McVitie Keogh <divad.ddub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Wandering through some old paperwork yesterday, I found the original
> > uk.rec.sheds charter
> >
> > How about we all make a New Year's Resolution to only post according to
> > that?
>
> I'd be up for that, but what say we also organise some subsidiary
> 'froups, such as: uk.rec.sheds.imaginitive-spelling or
> uk.rec.sheds.personal-arrangements-involving-not-many-people
> to take some of the strain off of our beloved Shed?
Just a .chat suffix group would do, then the main group could be for
sheddy stuff and almost everything that currently gets posted could be
in the chat group
>
> The really arcane stuff could be hived off to new sub-hierarchies such
> as uk.rec.treehouse or uk.rec.sooper-seekrit-decoder-ring; or even
> (dare I say it?) uk.rec.portable-penguin-house.
>
> But seriously folks (fnaar), I know that some people aren't much
> interested in e.g. Linux or motor-mechanics. I know that I'm not that
> keen on sewing-machines or push-bikes. If Shed-threads that start on
> one particular topic could be [shed-heresy alert] kept on that topic,
> it would be a lot easier for Shed-readers to mark those threads as
> 'to be ignored' without risk of missing something interesting. I know
> it's a strange concept, but the Shed is so big these days that it's
> quite difficult to keep up with it all, and IMO this would help.
>
> Finally, a pet hate: serious (or half-way thus) threads being hijacked
> by a "this'll do". Are we really still holding to the old ethos of
> recycling threads? I don't see very much evidence of it, apart from
> coj's gardening scissors thread which is actually a pretty good place
> for the parking of inconsequentialities.
>
> Blimey, I seem to have gone on a bit; I'll shut up now.
>
>
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To the east it be, snow before tea;
If south it turn, the sun he will burn.
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