🚀 go-pugleaf

"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:

> Michael Malak <malak@claygency.com> wrote:
> >
> > Crossposted: dc.biking,dc.driving,dc.general,dc.config
> >
> > OK, it's been nearly a year since my failed attempt to get
> > dc.urban-planning approved.  So let's try again -- those who have been
> > concerned with cross-posts to dc.driving and dc.biking should not let
> > the discussion in dc.config die this time.  This is your chance to
> > change the situation.
>
> Michael, thanks for your efforts.  The dc.driving newsgroup pretty much
> functions as a 'dc.transportation' newsgroup, with discussion of not
> just driving in the D.C. area, but also roads, public transit,
> bicycling, airports and other general transportation and urban planning
> topics in the D.C. area.  So I wonder if another newsgroup would be
> necessary, especially since non-crossposted posts in dc.driving usually
> number less than 20 posts per day.

There's a big problem with that and that is that peoples' message filters
on the planning and urban transit newsgroups, which are bombarded
by flamewars and trolls &c. are usually set to exclude dc.driving
and dc.general -- the former because of the name and the latter because
of the scope.

Hence, several discussions involving people on misc.transport.urban-transit

and other non-local lists about DC transportation, &c. have not been
posted to dc groups due to understandable disdain for cross-posts
from general-topic or "off-topic" groups.

-BER