October, 2004. Tim Starling recounts the futility of attracting contributors by advertising in topic-specific fora.

[13|03:06] <TimStarling> posting to three different forums got one contributor

Let's test this hypothesis... please add a line to the list below when you have posted an appropriate note ("have you seen the wikipedia section on http://en.wikipedia.org/foo?") to a specialist's forum; list the forum, date, and type of note.

Science

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  • alt.physics? maybe not.

Politics

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now is the time...

  • individual politician's blogs?
  • only vaguely partisan political-news blogs/fora?

Locales

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  • Cities : Arl-list
  • Universities : UT (x2), HU, UH.