Announcing: CSIR web service

[M Dominic Ryan]

On Feb 21,  4:56pm, David E. Bernholdt wrote:
> Subject: Announcing: CSIR web service
> I hope you will find this interesting and useful.
>
> We are pleased to announce a new web-based service...
>
> 	     Chemistry Software and Information Resources
> 			 http://www.csir.org
>
> CSIR (pronounced caesar) is an information resource for chemistry
> software, its development, and its use (in the broadest sense). It
> brings together a great deal of information scattered across the
> Internet, often hard to find and use, and makes it easily available to
> anyone with a web browser.
>
> CSIR incorporates several major components...
>
> * Chemistry Software Exchange
>
> A catalog of commercial and non-commercial software for chemists.

Doesn't this sound a lot like QCPE, but bigger?  This, to me, begs the
question, is QCPE now redundant, even in the latest inception on the CCL web
pages?

> * AskNPAC Chemistry Mailing List Archive
>
> Browse or search a large selection of chemistry-related mailing lists
> and newsgroups.
>
> The idea here is to collect in a single place a rather substantial
> body of information about chemistry-related software, its use, and
> about chemistry in general which is presently widely scattered across
> the Internet. In this way, we hope to make it easier to find and use.
>
> CSIR currently subscribes to and archives more than 80 mailing lists and
> Usenet newsgroups of interest to chemists.  The archive currently
> contains more than 60,000 messages, representing about six months of
> traffic. We plan to add "back issues" where we can, as well.  You can
> browse the archive in a Hypermail-like format, or you can search for
> specific information in any combination of mailing lists.  Information
> is available on all of the lists CSIR subscribes to, and if you're
> aware of anything we don't carry we'd love to hear about it.

More direct overlap with the CCL.  I would love to see these two directions
sorted out, particularly since $$ are getting put into both.  The money may not
come directly from the same pot now, but it won't take long for people to start
wondering, I am.

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