Don't forget Robin Cover's site

[Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM]

>When I'm having a busy day and am deleting most mailing-list traffic
>without reading it,

I do ths exact same and I am subscribed to 8 mailing lists, but there are
specifc subjects within each list I am interested in and I'm afraid Outlook
search doesn't work that great. For example, I have no idea what "groves"
even are, but I am very intersted in XML-RPC discussions or Namespace
discussions etc...

Is it not time we started to get around this problem? 
We are in the right place to at least make a start on it !

Over at BizTalk.org, there is some community work on an intelligent
newsreader to summarise threads on the web site as people like to read
offline. I see no reason why the same ideas could not be used for mailing
lists? Dave at Userland has also used a similar (ish) idea for online
discussion groups using RPC and it works very well.

cheers,
Steven

Steven Livingstone - http://www.deltabiz.com
07771 957 280 or +447771957280

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Megginson [SMTP:david at megginson.com]
> Sent:	22 September 1999 14:35
> To:	'xml-dev'
> Subject:	Don't forget Robin Cover's site
> 
> Don Park writes:
> 
>  > >This is a neat idea, but I guess the same arguments apply - who
>  > >has the time to produce it?
>  > 
>  > I believe there is enough interest in this, more so as XML gains
> popularity,
>  > that an individual can create an ad-supported executive summary style
>  > newsletter.  XMLWatch.com?  Members of emerging technology community
> usually
>  > has much higher influence on future purchases so it makes sense.
>  > Reader-base should be fairly diverse as well so it should be very
>  > interesting.
> 
> Don knows this already, but in case anyone's not aware, Robin Cover
> has for years run a similar service for both SGML and XML.  He doesn't
> summarize *all* of the debates, but he does include all of the
> announcements and summaries of some of the major discussions (like
> attributes vs. elements):
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
> 
> When I'm having a busy day and am deleting most mailing-list traffic
> without reading it, I usually take five minutes to go to Robin's "SGML
> and XML News" page to make certain that I haven't missed anything:
> 
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> David
> 
> -- 
> David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
>            http://www.megginson.com/
> 
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