Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.tex Message-ID: Date: 20 Dec 89 21:51:36 GMT References: <14650@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <865.25877f44@dayton.saic.com> <3601@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <2238@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 45 In-reply-to: piet@cs.ruu.nl's message of 20 Dec 89 17:14:15 GMT In article <2238@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes: In article , bob@MorningStar (Bob Sutterfield) writes: comp.text.tex... bidirectionally gatewayed with TeXhax... would prevent the fragmentation of the TeX community... [but] would reqire that the newsgroup be moderated... This is not necessary, only the gateway from usenet to TeXhax needs to be moderated. I can imagine a moderator that filters out the messages from comp.text.tex that should go into TeXhax... You're suggesting a scheme that would establish comp.text.tex as a stream of input to TeXhax. The TeXhax moderator would filter that stream, along with the other already-established input streams (there's a mail address, and there's probably a TEX-L on the Bitnet, possibly a TeX echo on Fidonet, etc.), and compile the results into a single digest publication for distribution. Presumably, that digest would be posted to comp.text.tex, either as a digest (like comp.risks) or as a series of individual messages (like comp.sys.sun). (a) Messages would appear on the newsgroup, then pass through the filter and moderator and digestifier, then (in one form or another) back out onto the group again. Alternatively, (b) the TeXhax digest could be not carried on the newsgroup, but that would deprive the group of the messages that originated on TEX-L or the mailing list address. Yet alternatively again, (c) the moderator and digestifier could make a special Usenet edition of the TeXhax digest containing articles from all the other input streams besides comp.text.tex. This differentiation of the output stream would require considerable work on the part of the moderator and filter and confusion for those accessing the archives. I'm suggesting a scheme that would let the list and the group carry identical messages. Once each. From whatever source. Using currently-available list and news and gateway and digesting technology and adding fairly little to the moderator's coordination load, besides the volume increase inherent in opening oneself up to the Usenet. This doesn't have to be the same as the TeXhax moderator, thereby sharing the workload. It could even be done by a couple of people (e.g. distributed by the message number modulo n, where n = the number of moderators). Various schemes could be worked out, this might be a good one. Oh by the way, has anybody asked the TeXHax moderator what {s}he thinks of all this?