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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.software.projects group idea
Message-ID: <314@luke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 14:35:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.314
Posted: Thu Aug 15 14:35:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:45:19 EDT
References: <134@isis.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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Keywords: distributed software projects
Summary: 

In article <134@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
>Being a software developer like so many of us, it strikes me that one of
>the golden opportunities of having the net is going unnoticed -- distributed
>projects.
>...
>Rather than having lots of individualized efforts going on, why not
>create a newsgroup, say, net.software.projects, whose sole purpose is to
>post ideas on software you're planning to write / are writing / would
>like to see written.

I think the idea is a good one.  I would make two suggestions: make it
a moderated group and name it mod.projects.software.  Then if Andrew's
suspicion that there is applicability outside software materializes, the
other names fall on naturally.

As for it being a moderated group, there are several potential
advantages:

    - a moderator could maintain an up-to-date list of ongoing projects
        and their contacts.  This list could then be organized along all
        sorts of useful lines (by category, region, language, and so on)
    
    - a moderator could ensure that ideas of similar type get grouped
        together in the postings

I would suggest that Andrew consider becoming moderator if there is
indeed a desire for this group.  The only immediate question I have is
where's the traffic?  According to recent reports, the idea is to create
a newsgroup to relieve an existing group of excessive, special-interest,
traffic.  Where is it?
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