I want to echo the sentiments expressed by Mike and Valdis regarding the
LO List... I am very pleased with the way Rick runs this list with an
open, but very considerate style which seems to go with the flow.
If there is really a strong intent to split off from the List, I believe
this should emerge with someone with a strong enough intent and focus to
start a list of their own and welcome subscribers...
I experience the issues raised by this discussion more from the viewpoint
of wanting a good List Reader which would help me to....
a) organize threads of discussion, searchable by time period and
author,as well as keywords...
b) enable me to insert my own network of hotlinks on the raw digest
material, making it a hyperdocument of my own structure...
c) enable me to quickly pull quotes with the author and LOref#
automatically attached...
d) enable me to filter my reading of digest messages...
e) enable me to form small groups of addressees for semi-private mail...
and so on..
If such facilities are available in some product... I would appreciate
learning about it (we developed our own version of this in the late 80's
called IdeaBase on the Mac... but it has not been maintained) ??
I believe that the kind of flexibility referred to above... would enable
individual preferences to be applied individually without imposing upon
emergent and rich qualities of our LO community.
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Host's Note: Doug, I'd like to see a product like you're talking
about. Here's what I know about "mail readers" mostly from my own
experience:
"Filter" to put messages into different "folders" based on key-words,
sender, etc. is a feature of Eudora and can be done with a little
programming on unix systems.
Pine mail reader (the one I use on unix) let's me build and keep the
archive files. I can see these easily, sorted by author, subject, or
date. No hyperlinks. But, would keep track of which msgs I've seen and
not seen.
A half-dozen subsidiary sites are putting the learning-org msgs into a
Lotus Notes database to which links could (I believe) be attached. Let's
see if any of people reading from these sites will tell us about their
experiences...
The web pages I'm creating are as close as I have been able to find in a
facility that runs automatically enough to sustain on learning-org.
-- Rick Karash, rkarash@world.std.com, host for learning-org.
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