On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:30:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > All the severe usability and freedom-of-choice issues that hamper web > > boards > > aside, the only thing starting a redundant forum serves to do is fracture > > the > > user base. This is a Bad Thing, and serves only to harm users by making it > > exponentially more difficult to find the information you need. > > Seconded. This mailing list already exists as a newsgroup (via gmane) and > has a web interface (via Google Groups). What more do you want?
What I'd like is a decent index. I haven't found the existing automatic indexes to be very useful. Perhaps human beings need to classify the messages in some way ... but I imagine there would be difficulty in getting enough people to do the indexing. And the design of the classificatin system probably needs the attention of professional librarians. Still, this idea might be worth opening for discussion. -- hendrik > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. > -Bruce Tognazzini > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
