First Edited Message Threads Posted - Reactions?

[Alex Rice]

On Oct 25, 2003, at 1:49 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I've posted the first dozen message threads from this list in edited, 
> threaded form on my Web site at http://www.revolutionpros.com. Click 
> on "Best of List" in the top nav to see them.

Dan and Listees;

Dan's "Best of the List" aggregation is a good resource, but it could 
just as well go in the Tips/Stacks sections of RevNet plugin. Or at 
RevJournal. Or- at the runrev.com site itself. It seems as if all these 
forums have the potential for fragmenting what is already a relatively 
small community.

There is style of summary/commentary that has been going on in the 
python-dev mailing list/newsgroup for a few years. See 
<http://www.python.org/dev/summary/> for examples of this writing 
style. It's a good concise form and it's posted right to the list in 
plaintext to the list, and in a hypertext form for archiving on the 
website.

So the python mailing list has a good system, IMHO:
usenet newsgroup <-> mailing list <-> summaries <-> web archive

In any case, kudos to all you who are experimenting with "web forums" 
and publishing real content (Dan Shafer, Alan Golub) and 
howtos/tutorials (Richard Gaskin, Ken Ray, Jacqueline, Dar... others).


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