Re: Seperate list or consolidated listing? (was Re: [seul-edu] New educational app--reading)

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 07:17:41PM -0700, SteelHead (bill@ries-knight.net) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> > By my count, there are fifty postings of new educational software in
> > seul-edu, the vast bulk of all content in the past week.

<...>

> > I've only been on list for about a week, but find this disruptive.  Any
> > possibility we could consolidate the listing, or have a seul-edu-sw list
> > to which such announcements (and discussion) would be appropriate?
> 
> Adding these messages to the list does a couple of things... <...>
> Listing the apps in the messages this way allows these folks, <...> to
> know that apps are developed or in development. <...> 
> 
> The second point is the SEUL archives are crawled by search engines
> regularly, and it is an easy way to disseminate the presence of Linux
> Education Application information.  

Either of which might have been accomplished by posting an aggregate
listing of apps.  Possibly even more effectively.

> Btw, this is the *only* time Doug has done bulk listngs of this nature
> and scale in almost 3 years, and now is the normal time for teachers
> to be searching for stuff for the new school year.  I think we can
> deal with the status quo.

Thanks for this info.  And, yes, I can see how the timiing makes sense
for educational use.

I wasn't arguing against the postings, just for a less intrusive way of
making them.

Cheers.

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