> What is difficult is maintenance. ACCMAIL resources have rarely been > stable for very long. Removal of dead links and timely addition of new > resources is critical. It is too much for a single person. > > I have some ideas on how it might be done as a collaboration. I will > try to find time in the next 48 hours to write them up and post them > here -- but I am also keen to hear *any* other suggestions from *any* > other subscribers. Time to brainstorm!?
I see three options: - a WikiWiki web: Hosting should be no problem. The main problem is the danger of vandalism. (I would also prefer the more modern versions that do not rely on CamelCase.) - Using a content management / versioning system suitable for decentralized development, like tla or monotone or darcs. At least the latter two work over e-mail. But I suppose there are Windows users here, and I do not know which of these are usable there. - Simply publishing an archive of the mailing list, perhaps with some automatic indexing / searching. The least effort, but also not as nice as a `real' document. A related question is what to do with the various translations into other languages: This concerns both vandalism in the WikiWiki case (how do you know whether some gibberish is nonsense or some foreign language?) and the problem of staying up-to-date in the face of frequent changes; the latter is practically impossible for the mailing list archive, and very problematic for the WikiWiki web. Albert. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
