Re: [SLUG] Call for new list best-of-slug ?

[Sonam Chauhan <sonamc@nospam.ce.com.au>]

David: Good point. There is need for "best-of-SLUG" archivals as well as for searching within this archive.

Here's a suggestion: 
- Create another mail account (say <slug-pearls@nospam.slug.com.au>)

- Use Hypermail to archive mail this address gets. 
  i.e. : in /etc/aliases 
       slug-pearls: "|/usr/local/bin/hypermail -i -u -d /home/slug/mail-archive"

- If at any point of time, people feel that a particular mail exchange on Slug is getting worthwhile , anyone
participating in the discussion just adds a cc:<slug-pearls@nospam.slug.com.au> to his next reply. From that point on, the
conversation is recorded in the Hypermail archive. Of course, everyone would need to choose reply-all (discussed by
Anand earlier). 

- Setup a SWISH or another search to incrementally index the archive. There are web interfaces to SWISH that can be
customised to work specifically with this archive.


Advantages:
- no sweat (but still a conscious decision)
- everybody's involved in selecting "good" stuff
- new updates to an old topic update the correct Hypermail thread

I've setup this before, so I could help out if you decide to do this.
For Hypermail: http://www.hypermail.org
For Swish: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/

Regards,
-Sonam


David Kempe wrote:
> 
> My idea for a best of slug list goes along the logic like this,
> Lots of the more useful stuff on the SLUG list if problems/solutions pairs.
> Sometimes a problem has more than one good solution. We know that alot of
> noise is generated on the way. Now My idea is that for the person who
> initiates the problem, they wait until all their answer have come in, then
> they compile it into a predefined format, kinda like this was my problem,
> this was the solution/s, these people had good comments, etc and post that
> to the best of slug list. So the list gets moderated by the people who have
> the problems - kinda as a way of putting something back into the community
> after getting something out. Then of course there are other things that
> happen on this list, like announcements, general discussion that doesn't fit
> into prob/soln format. I spose that could be just part of the general noise
> on this list. But for me, the signal is in the problem/solutions that come
> out of the list. You know, oh thats a neat way of doing that, oh shit I
> better patch that, or yeah im glad someone asked that stupid question. So I
> reckon the best of slug would be user contributed, to give the people who
> have problems a chance to put something back.
> Now that means anyone can post to the list. But like every list it has rules
> about what is acceptable and what isn't. For example if I posted some lame
> NT question to the slug list, I would get flamed so bad I need some
> first-aid. This sort of social pressure would keep the list to a minimum and
> in the long term I think, is the most effective way to moderate anything, be
> it mailling list, bulletin board, newsgroups, etc.
> 
> Hope thats useful, feel free to let me know what you think,
> 
> Dave
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