On 11/13/2012 3:46 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
David Schmidt wrote:On 11/13/2012 3:21 PM, D Finnigan wrote:I am considering writing a gateway to copy vintage-computer.com/vcforum posts to csa2 based on the RSS feed that is provided for the Apple II forum on the site. Any remarks on this idea?I'm not a fan. I participate in lots of fora, VC being only one. I'd hate for csa2 to become the sewer into which any and all splinter groups drain.The quality of discussions on the VC Apple II forum struck me as being valuable (do you agree?), which is why I had the idea of gatewaying them into csa2.
Quality of discussion is one aspect to consider. I agree, it is good on VC - there are others with good signal-to-noise ratios too, like AppleFritter and 68kmla - and I suspect there is a lot of overlap of participants, too.
I remain unswayed, though. I assume the traffic would be 2-way, otherwise it would be highly unuseful. I have no idea if Erik would want the extra incoming traffic, what that traffic would look like ("who is this 'usenet' fellow?") and so on.