[11730] in APO-L
Re: newsgroups and APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Thu Mar 23 11:31:21 1995
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:28:42 -0500
Reply-To: Randy Finder <NARAHT@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <NARAHT@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01HOGHB2YC5U0502GY@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, PASCAL - JIM G wrote:
> Hi all. Is there a newsgroup for alpha phi omega?
No.
>
> My list of newsgroups contains many thousands of them, but there is no
> alpha phi omega group. Our fraternity has been discussed many times on
> the group alt.college.fraternities. The current rage there is a
> discussion on the integration of single-sex frats.
>
As Amanda said, not just the current Rage. Ted Frank has been pushing
that since the newgroup started. You can tell when Ted is away from his
computer by how much the group returns to Sanity.
> I access the newsgroups with a 'threaded news reader' on my local unix
> system. I type 'trn' to use it. Maybe there are other ways on different
> systems. Newsgroups are collectively called, I believe, 'USENET.' It may
> be the next forum for this fraternity.
>
Newsreaders differ from machine to machine, but the determining factor
for what newsgroups are available is not the reader but the server it
gets the newsgroups from. And yes, collectively they are known as Usenet.
> I would like to start a newsgroup myself. I am currently trying to find
> out how to go about this. If it can be done without a considerable
> investment of money or equipment, then maybe I could do it. I would be
> willing to administrate it.
No administrator needed unless it were made a moderated group.
> Of course, I would not do this without at least writing to the national
> officers of the fraternity on email to make sure there are no objections
> to it.
In general, there has been oppositioin to the idea among those who are
usenet knowledgable on APO-L.
The perfect situation would be to have a Moderated newsgroup which is
gated both ways with the mailing list. This means that all mail to the
mailing lists shows up as posts and vice versa.
If it isn't gatewayed you end up with a division between that info which
shows up on the newsgroup and which shows up on the mailing list. Lack of
moderation means you end up with the obnoxious posts which are sometimes
posted to any and all fraternity related groups.
This double gatewayed moderated set-up is possible to make, just
difficult. At the current time APO-L is not high enough volume to NEED a
newsgroup (In my Opinion).
A much smaller percentage of brothers can access newsgroups as opposed to
those who can access email, so getting rid of the mailing list would be bad.
I don't really think it gives us that much additional PR though.
I know there are a significant number of APO brothers on the newsgroups
where APO might be mentioned, these include alt.college.fraternities,
alt.college.sororities, rec.scouting, soc.college, and
soc.org.service-clubs.misc.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
> Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?
>
> "Pascal", xi rho alum, Alpha Phi Omega
> Spring '94 pledge class - "The Seven Wonders of the World"
>
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Leadership, Friendship and Service - Alpha Phi Omega
