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Re: Generic Alpha News

Subject: Re: Generic Alpha News
Jamesvi@asu.edu
Date: Wed Apr 5 16:03:29 2000


I think that this would be great! It is the best way to collect the news in
one spot and not swamp any one person. I'll submit stuff I find.

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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:

> Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org) wrote:
>
> > I don't think ALO would have a problem with an alphanews site. The issue
> > is site maintainers...aka people to write up and submit stories. It's
> > great when somebody sends you a link to the latest news item, the issue is
> > the time it takes somebody to write up the news items everytime.
>
> Perhaps we could use some of the Open Sourced code used on Kuro5hin.org,
> I believe the project is called "scoop". One of the features is that the
> *users* get to decide what gets posted. This would make the site
> *almost* self maintained. Then only editors to fix spelling, broken
> urls, etc would be needed. What does everyone think?
>
>
> JMHO,
>
> Ron
>
> P.S. as far as volunteers go, where do I sigh up? ;)
>
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