Re: BAUG meets 6.22.98: Printing fonts w/HP500 &/or IWII

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> >James OReilly writes ...
> >>
> >> The next meeting of the Big Apple Users Group will take place at 6:30 pm
> >> next Monday, June 22, at Polly's place at 345 West 58th Street, Apt 5L
> >
> >     It is good to see a users' group meeting notice posted here. This,
> >really, is where such information belongs-- i.e. where users will see
> >it! What do you think about the idea of scrapping
> >comp.sys.apple2.usergroups?
> 
> Disagree.  Some people measure a computer's worth by how many
> newsgroups it has.  We need to keep all of ours.  There's nothing wrong
> with crossposting to two groups.
> 
> Rubywand, why are you trying to kill the other groups in the hierarchy.
> ;-)  <---------------

     One user can not "kill" any sub-group. Bringing usergroups
information into the main line group is a suggestion.

     The reasons for the suggestion are ...  1. many users do not read
the usergroups sub-group  and  2. there is not much activity on the
usergroups sub-group  and  3. there will be more usergroup meeting info
posted when usergroup persons know the info will be read by someone.

     You say that having lots of sub-groups looks good and enhances Csa2
status. Perhaps, this is so. My concern is less with impressing
non-Apple II users and more with promoting user group activities and
getting user group information to II users.

     You suggest cross-posting. Granted, this is just a minor
inconvenience on some machines with some browsers. For others, you may
be talking about needing to make separate postings. There is a trick or
two which could help-- e.g. a standing cross-posted thread: What's new
with your user group? to which user group persons could respond.

     The downside of cross-posting and assorted tricks is that it
complicates things. Some user group posters with information to post may
not know what's going on with our ploys to impress non-users. They may
just want to post a notice where it will be read and assume that dumping
it on the sub-group gets the job done.

     Why not invite those who, like James OReilly, regularly post to the
usergropups sub-group to express their feelings about eliminating the
sub-group and posting their information directly to Csa2? If the
response is a resounding "No", then, that's that, the sub-group remains.
If the response is a solid "Yes", then their posts go here and we move
to decertify the sub-group.

   


Rubywand