From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 13 Dec 1996 - 22:38:00 EET
Old Nick (Brooke) suggested:
>Is this a good time to think about ways of making the archive
>(and its previous incarnations with Andrew Bell, Henk Langeveld and Loren
>Miller's versions) more readily available? On CD-ROM with some kind of
>search routines attached, perhaps? Linking articles with HTML jumps??
>Indexing key words and themes???
It is a good time to get to work with this. Some thinking (and even a bit of
work) has already been done, now and then.
However, even with the good signal to noise ratio (at least when I remain
silent ;-) there is a lot of stuff stuck in unresolved discussions. While it
is nice to fond these discussions, it would be nicer to get some results out
of them, but who is to edit these?
Back in Henk's reign there was the Daily for discussions and first drafts,
and then there was a Digest with more voluminous and less argumentative
stuff, often edited from the Daily. While this was before general access to
the WWW, it produced a more practical reference as long as it was tended.
Nowadays, this stuff tends to end up on some WWW site, and results in
private discussion only.
As for distributing the stuff on CD: Does there exist a complete collection
of all the mailing lists concerned with RQ and/or Glorantha and related
matters? My personal collection has been damaged by a disk failure or two,
and I guess most other people's collections will have fared no better. I
would be game for a CD with the zipped files only, already, or maybe some
zip-drive medium with the full set.
If anybody is interested in starting serious work on this, I'll gladly join
the effort, and contribute the results of an earlier attempt to follow the
list which ceased along with a disk crash...
Joerg (one of the number-crushers, if not computer people)
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