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

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

on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:53:12AM -0400, Doug Loss (drloss@home.com) wrote:
> Harry McGregor wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self 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.
> >
> > Doug Loss (kinda the coordinator of SEUL/edu as an online community)
> > regulary posts new apps as he runs accross them.  It happend that he dove
> > into sourceforget this week, and we got hit with a lot of them.  Normaly
> > it's less than an average of 1/week, maybe 2/week.
> 
> Harry's right, this was an abnormal occurrence.  The problem is, there's
> no comprehensive list of Linux software for education other than ours
> (that I know of).  So I try to report on each package I find when I find
> it, to get it on the record on our mailing list.  I also use the mailing
> list archives as a primary source for my fortnightly Linux in education
> reports and for the SEUL/edu software listings, so having these on the
> mailing list makes it much less likely that they'll be overlooked (by
> me) in those instances.  

All estimable goals, and heartily appreciated.

<...>

> One possibility is for me to combine the listings I find (when I find a
> bunch) into one large message listing multiple packages rather than
> separate messages for each.  The reasons I haven't done that are that I
> don't often find enough packages at one time for that to make sense and
> that with individual messages I can categorize the application type in
> the subject.  Unless there are strong objections, in the future I'll put
> large lists of apps all in one message with the categorization as part
> of each app's listing.  Does that sufficiently address the concern?  Of
> course Karsten, I can CC you for each listing, giving you double the
> amount if you like (looks skyward, whistling disarmingly).

You never *have* personally tangled with my procmail recipies, have you.
Particularly since I've switched to sourdough....

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