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

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> David: Good point. There is need for "best-of-SLUG" archivals as well as for searching within this archive.
> 
> Here's a suggestion: 

[snip - account creation, hypermail setup ]

> - 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). 

The problem here is that typically by the time someone realises that this 
is a pearl of wisdom the email has already been sent. Adding a CC at a later
stage and the pearl archive will end up with emails which have no 
continuity of flow.

> - 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

How does that last one work?

> I've setup this before, so I could help out if you decide to do this.

SLUG has hardware now thanks to the donations of many people. We are
still getting things setup on it properly and I am sorting out some
political things with our network host. 

Hopefully things should be ready to go sometime in June.

Anand
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