[thelist] Country Specific Lists: WAS Re: London Drinkies

[Oliver Lineham]

At 18:17 6/02/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>I've got domains we could use, but to keep us under the evolt umbrella
>maybe a nice admin could give us 'uk.evolt.org'?
>Its just a thought, I don't want to split the list, but for country
>specific stuff it seems sensible?

i think rather than splitting by country, somewhere to throw events 
discussion/notification would be good (something like events.evolt.org - or 
perhaps it would be within the main site). tied in with this is the 
question whether to create a general chatter list.

we're talking a little about this on the admin list.  caveats: 1. i'm just 
one of *many* admins, and there's a bunch of discussion we need to do 
first.  2. there are a couple of other cool projects to get out of the way 
first..

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