Mark,
Rich certainly hit the nail on the head...it's a great deal of work on your part and your efforts are indeed greatly appreciated by the group.
I don't think the front page needs to carry a summary of the list. IMHO, the front page should have: 1) pointers to recent major announcements of interest to the group -- a) from vendors, b) from IBM when the code drop site is updated, 3) user group presentations, 4) user group upcoming meetings, 5) recent articles. 2) pointers to updated pages on linuxvm.org itself 3) pointers to interesting and appropriate Linux, VM. S/390, etc listservs. 4) a good site search function.....implementation left as an exercise for the reader....:-) 5) a way to contact you, the site owner, at a convenient address.
An idea I've just had is to have a page where people could post their own helpful hints and tips, pointers to interesting sites, etc. Sort of a community bulletin board, with perhaps you vetting the submissions for appropriate content before they appear there.
DJ
Rich Smrcina wrote:
Mark,
It is certainly a herculean effort on your part to attempt to keep that up and frankly I've often wondered how you found the time to do so. I want to say that your efforts are greatly appreciated, it is a great reference. For my opinion, I don't think it is necessary to summarize the list traffic, but what to put in it's place eludes me.
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:54, Post, Mark K wrote:
As many/most of you have noticed, I've not been able to keep the main page of the web site updated for quite a while. Other parts have been a little better, but could be better as well. My apologies for that, and I will try to do something about it. I do have a reason (although not an excuse) which I'll be announcing here fairly soon.
Before I herniate myself trying to catch up with all the old traffic, I wanted to ask the list if they think the running commentary/summarization of the list traffic was/is a worthwhile thing. If so, fine, I'll try to catch it up. If not, then the question becomes, what _should_ be on the "front page" of the newspaper, so to speak? Is there something that would be of more value to have there? I'm willing to listen to suggestions.
I'm divided as to whether to request that answers be sent off-list. I don't necessarily want people to have to read all the responses that don't care much. But, I also like the idea that answers generate new ideas, etc. So, for now, I'll say send responses to the list. If things get too ugly, I'll request that any further traffic be taken off-list.
Thanks,
Mark Post
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