Re: ListServ - MUGs
Re: ListServ - MUGs
- Subject: Re: ListServ - MUGs
- From: John Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:45:55 -0500
On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 01:00 America/Indianapolis,
email@hidden wrote:
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:18:41 +0800
Subject: ListServ - MUGs
From: Yan Feng <email@hidden>
To: Apple user group digest <email@hidden>
Hi all,
A member at the Beijing Macintosh User Group suggested the group do a
ListServ, and we did. I recently was assisted by the list manager in
customising it.
In essence, we're all set, and the stage has been set. There's just a
slight
problem, though:
Nobody else, apart from the list manager and myself, are on the list!
[snip]
So I'd like to ask everyone a question: how do you get a MUG ListServ
not
just going, but also thriving?
Well, we have a yahoo e-group, not our own listserv (but close enough,
I guess), and it sees a fair bit of traffic. Just looking back through
the logs quickly, there have been several days where no messages come
though, followed by some where there have been six or eight per day.
For example, we recently had a discussion on the list about bridging
AirPort networks, and extending the range of AirPort on a TiBook (the
original poster had seen some webpages with "Pringles-can" 802.11
antennas).
I think that our group mostly just got used to sending out messages to
the list, and now that is the accepted mode of operating between
meetings. Actually, we see a fair number of people on the list that
either don't show up regularly (or at all) to meetings! I do a little
bit to keep things interesting, posting interesting tidbits of news,
questions from people who mail the club account, and hardware
wanted/for sale notices that I stumble across in other local venues,
and that keeps things going sometimes.
What really seems to happen though, is that someone will post a
question on some topic or other, and once someone responds in a useful
manner, a whole bunch of people will chime in with their related
problems. There's nothing like the solution of a problem to bring up
list traffic!
[snip]
John A. Johnson
President, Serious Macintosh User Group
www.smug.net
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