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REGIONAL LISTS? No They're Not!

inzideztory | 30.08.2003 12:33

REGIONAL LISTS? No They're Not!

Hello,

I fully appreciate the hard work volunteers are putting in to built up the indymedia network, but the thing is that these regional lists are no such thing. They're just redistributed stuff from the main list.

I've been posting stuff from the West Country, in the hope that it would just show up in the West Country, but it ends up on the national list too. Maybe I'm just being greedy, as we've already got the genuinely independent Bristol Indymedia to post stuff on.

But I can see a real problem developing, where people start sending more & more localised stuff to their regional indymedia, because they expect it will stay there, but in reality the national list just gets more & more clogged with regional information which only the region concerned is likely to be interested in.

I think we should either have genuinely regional lists, or not bother, as a redistributed list masquerading as separate lists is just a recipe for the National List first getting completely clogged, then resulting in people losing interest in both the regional & national indymedia's to escape the information overload.

inzideztory

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51 st state

30.08.2003 12:44

I will like to see no posts about NYC, Oakland or anyother unrelated US domestic dispute posted on IMC-UK.

Thank you.

ram


its a good point

02.09.2003 00:01

this and more is being discussed by those who have been volunteering now the site has changed - in its current form things as you suggest will take work to change the code so it wont be an instant fix, this interplay between regional sections / newswires and main uk page is something that needs to be understood and used to the best advantage - so it has needed some time with the new code working to see how it might work (or not)

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