[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Summaries please! (RE: We gotta break up these digests)
At 11:58 AM 9/21/99 +0100, Leigh Dodds wrote: >> Is there any way we could break these digets up a bit? > >Regular summaries on behalf of the participants involved in >some of the um, more heated and lengthy discussions would >be useful as well (perhaps these could go to a separate >list for those who want digests?). > >I've completely lost track of this list lately because >of the sudden spike in traffic. I *know* I'm missing useful >stuff, I just haven't got the time to dig through all >the posts to find the jewels amongst all the pushing and >shoving. > >I doubt anyone is going to offer to summarise the whole list, >but perhaps one or more participants from the major threads >could take a time out occasionally? Please?! Writing summaries might well turn into essays, given the scope of the discussion on this list. I'm not sure people who find ten minutes five times a day to churn out email could spend fifty consecutive minutes dedicated to summaries. It's a good idea, though. Might even lead to some useful books! I really like the Slashdot approach, in which moderators annotate the discussion, assigning points to commentators who regularly produce jewels and letting readers filter out the Anonymous Cowards if they like by setting a threshold. They also have the advantage of a more threaded discussion, with separate forums for each topic, which makes it a lot easier to get to just the information you want. About two years ago, someone (Peter Murray-Rust?) posted an 'XML-dev Jewels' page. That page was enormously helpful to me in figuring out a lot of what was going on with XML, and getting started. It was just some key messages from the archive, but they were great! I'd love to see more resources like that, where someone could take the time to look over the list and find its brightest patches. Even a simple list of 'bright patches' with links to the archives would help a lot of folks. Similarly, more third-party reporting, by people who can survive the archives (CNET did) might make it easier for newcomers to figure out just what everyone's talking about. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who has the time, money, and patience to do that on a regular basis. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer (2nd Ed - September) Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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