hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (04/03/90)
In article <2617F06D.18600@paris.ics.uci.edu> jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Patrick Vance) writes: %Steven W. Klassen <swklassen@tiger.waterloo.edu> writes: %>Someone seems to ask about the meaning of bombs quite regularly, %>and answers seem to go across the net quit regularly. % % Another great reason for having a monthly posting. %This is definately one of those lists and answers that should be included %in the monthly posting. % Many of these questions it seems get asked about once every month. %What better way to answer them then in a monthly posting. It also %would make a great resource for all atarians. Something like a %quick reference guide: %"Everything you always wanted to know about an ST that Atari didn't tell you" %(just kidding) % % But seriously, this is something that has come up for quite awhile now. %Is anyone collecting responses and working on this monthly deal? I know %someone brought it up a few weeks ago but I don't know if anything is being %done. Sounds like a terrific idea. Would anyone care to go thru all of the old postings and distill all the best information into a book? (I thought not...) What exactly can we put into a monthly posting? The intro to comp.binaries is already posted every month, and describes how to get stuff from the archive sites. That seems to be the best we can really do - all the resources are there, at the archive sites, you just need to know how to get to them. The problem with actually digesting usenet info is verifying the accuracy or usefulness of the information. This would be highly time-consuming... And I don't know of any site that actually archives all of the discussion newsgroup. A lot of good info comes down the pipe, and apparently flows to the bitbucket. This newsgroup could seriously use the equivalent of a moderator, more like an editor or librarian. Not to censor what gets posted, but to cull thru postings and select info for archiving. Anyone care to volunteer? -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan