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From: veit@du9ds3 (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Working groups!!
Date: 2 Dec 92 09:08:42 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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In <159Y022O2dlc01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes:

>In article <1992Dec1.073643.5277@tfs.com>, julian@tfs.com (Julian
>Elischer) writes:
>> In article <6009.9211301640@thor.cf.ac.uk> spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul
>> Richards) writes:

>> [ stuff deleted ]
> 
>I assume that these working groups are designed for people who will
>actually be working on the project rather than those just wanting to keep
>informed.  I, like many others, intend to participate in one or two working
>groups but would like to be kept informed about the progress of many
>of the others.  

>Should I really subscribe to all of these groups?

>Maybe the working groups could post weekly minutes to the net to prevent
>this oversubscribing (or maybe this oversubscribing is not a problem?)

>-- 
>Gary Browning        | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
>		     | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
>                     | what is wrong with it.

You bring up an important point. The SIG's Lynne has in mind were intended
for small groups of active workers and not mainly for interested listeners,
although I doubt there will be a word counting to determine the grade of
participation. I guess much of the discussions there may become quite 
controversal, and is perhaps not for the public, although it may touch
public interests to a high degree.
Oversubscribing is perhaps a problem for the sendmail daemon on ref.tfs.com, 
or where else the SIG's are hosted. 
I would consider a daily/weekly/monthly report or something like that 
a good idea (maybe the proposed .development or .announce groups are a
forum for that).
What is difficult, however, is that the SIG's should not become such
formalized that there must be an official speaker or controller who gives
and announces directions, so I do not know where such reports should come
from, except by voluntary actions.

Holger
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