Xref: utzoo news.admin:14888 news.groups:32609 comp.groupware:590 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!cs.wvu.wvnet.edu!cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu!cathedral!dmn From: dmn@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Dan Nichols) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.groupware Subject: Re: Reform Trial.* (was: Trial flawed) Summary: Lurker responds Message-ID: <1822@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Date: 3 Jun 91 14:34:31 GMT References: <1991May30.144345.15890@gorm.ruc.dk> Sender: news@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu Followup-To: comp.groupware Lines: 55 In article , emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > > How do you discover new groups? What if someone says "hm, i wonder > what is in alt.industrial, has anyone said anything interesting in > there in the last month?" You can't believe that a 45 character blurb > approved by someone who doesn't even read the group is going to help > you there. It's mighty handy to keep around a day or two of news in > even the most random and banal of newsgroups on the off chance that > something interesting will pop up. > > this is especially true of news reading schemes which cut across a > broad swath of groups looking for interesting things. many topics > don't have their own newsgroup, and there's no good guess where the > next bit of interesting materials will pop up. > I agree. We are doing work on coordination technology for cross- functional teams and there are no specific newsgroups that deal with this area. I have found articles in comp.groupware and even in sci.virtual-worlds that are of interest. Who knows where else articles that are relevant to our work are lurking. > > groups of 100 people don't tend to have newsgroups. remember the > lurker factor, it's a considerable number of folks who never post > anything but still read the net. (hi lurkers!) inefficient netnews > systems tend to get squashed out pretty ruthlessly, anyways -- if > people want dynamic feeding, i'm sure that once they're convinced of > its utilities and cost savings they'll start to use it. > > in addition, your licence agreement for dynafeed puts it out of the > reach of a number of systems which might otherwise consider it. > > --Ed Yes, the members of our group can be classified as "lurkers" right now. In the future we may be posting articles to this group, but for now we are only reading the articles. So I guess the moral of this is that there are lurkers out there who are reading this group and find it quite useful. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer : These are my opinions -- get your own. Dan Nichols (dmn@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu) Concurrent Engineering Research Center (Making the world safe for CE) 955 Hartman Run Road Morgantown, WV 26505 -------------------------------------------------------------------------