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

[Conrad Parker <conradp@nospam.ives.orchestra.cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:39:13PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote:
> I suppose my original idea was that the list was only for people who have
> prob/soln pairs that get resolved quickly and then they feel they want to
> say thankyou and post the prob/soln to the second list. I'm not sure how
> compiling things into a magic web based archive would solve things, as the
> noise will only increase if people move away from the list and rely on the
> archive.

yep. Throwing crappy '90s technology at the problem isn't going to
fix it. The problem is not with the medium, its with the truckloads
of messages.

Perhaps (as you suggest) all we need is a culture where people say:

        "Here's my problem, tell me what to do and I'll summarise
        to the list"

... and then they actually go on and summarise the responses. The
only way to get that culture is for people to start doing it ...


What about the other type of big threads (long discussions about
random topics [such as this one :]). Would a separate discussion
list work?

These approaches involve pushing noise off the list, rather
than scooping signal from it. Which is more useful/viable?

Conrad.
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