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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:34:56 +0100
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From: Gilles Furelaud <gilles.furelaud@snv.jussieu.fr>
Subject: sumo web site or web-zine - good or bad idea
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OK, this is my first contribution to the mailing list, and I hope not to many
people will hate me for not being so enthusiastic (by the way, excuse me
for all the english mispelling I will surely make in this mail...): )

I haven't suscribed yet to Sumo World. And from what I hear from the ML, I
probably won't. But I really would love to receive a good Sumo magazine,
with as many informations as possible. So I think Josh had a great point
proposing a campaign to convince people like Ozumo to make an
English version of their magazine. We are enough to prove them this
would be good for their benefits (which is, I fear, the only way to really
convince them...). And the fact that most of us suscribe to a magazine
(sumo world) that we find not so good should be a good argument to
prove them that we REALLY want a sumo magazine.

But, I don't agree with the idea of a web site that we would be doing. I have
several reasons for that :

1- making such a web site, or web-zine, will make it necessary to create a
kind "sumo writers for the web site mailing list". I'm new in the sumo ML,
but I love all the informations I receive through it. And I fear that creating
such a "second mailing list" will stop a lot of informations from being but
on the sumo ML. OK, everybody will still receive them on the new web site,
but I think that really wouldn't be the same than the ML...

2- doing a web site (or a webzine) will necessite us to choose what will be
put in it... I think we don't all want the same kind of informations about
sumo. And I don't want us to start arguing against each others about what
should be put in the web site, or what sould be written BIG or small, etc. I
really fear that doing this will only make us argue against each others...

3- imagine we don't like the web site (or the webzine)... Do we really want
us to start talking of "the people doing the site" the way we talked about
Clyde for the last week ? I surely don't want it. But I fear this will
probably
be the case, one day or another...

In conclusion, I think that doing such a web site is very risky for us. And I
say : let some other people do it (it will be easier to protest if we're not
happy).

But one good and usefull web site we could make is to improve the
sumofans web site, to tell in what sites find informations about particular
rikishishis, or banzuke informations, or glossary, and so one...

Thanks for having read all this quite long mail;

         Gilles Furelaud



Gilles Furelaud
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