I think John made some very good points in that blog post. I am running a Google Group and I am finding for smaller groups it is possible to give a few people moderator rights so that any new members are able to get their posts in at a reasonable time. Still, the points that John raises are valid.
I suggested that he do the following. 1) Shut down posting from non-admins for the group ( limit to announcements and summaries ) 2) Direct people to ask questions on StackOverflow.com (SO) and tag the questions appropriately (jQuery in John's case, Clojure for this group) 3) Aggregate all new questions on SO regularly (every 4 hours?) to create a summary post on this group A group is useful because it gives you a central place to keep everyone up to date by sending out announcements. Since spam can get through when they are mixing in with a large number of members who have rights to post messages it seems Google Groups has a problem with preventing spam. So this hybrid approach may be the best option for now. I have found that SO is a great solution for getting quick answers which tend to be good quality answers. Their who system for rating answers and awarding community points has been working very well. There is no such thing for Google Groups. On the flip side, there is no way to indicate group membership with Clojure or jQuery on SO that I know about. Being able to send out an announcement to a group that is "following" a tag could be a way to eliminate a need for Google Groups altogether. I do not know if this is on the SO feature list. Brennan On Oct 27, 12:01 pm, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote: > John Resig (the guy behind jQuery) thinks so: > > http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/ > > I've noticed some amount of spam creeping into this list ... the > question is how much effort is being put into moderating out that > spam. John notes that GG has some gaping holes in it ... very easy to > spoof and makes a damning case that GG is inherently flawed (not that > it is not fixable, but that Google has shown no inclination to fixing > it). > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Creator of Apache Tapestry > > The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > > (971) 678-5210http://howardlewisship.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
