Replies to Kevin and Ben

[T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

 Timothy replies to Kevin who wrote:
>Now there's a great idea.  What's involved in setting up a usenet group?
>The only problem I'd see is there would be no archive.  unless one of us
>went and saved all the messages ourselves.

I haven't used usenet much, but am told that unmoderated newsgroups are less
pleasant to write in than moderated(subscribe) ones.

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Timothy replies to Ben who wrote multiple messages:

>I could be responsible for librarian and archiver, especially
>because I have a ZIP drive, and $20 bux for 100 megs I think
>even my dad will pay once a month.. If that's enuff space.

Don't worry about buying zip-discs, all letters from the last year of SD
discussions are less than 5 Mb.

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>Think about getting
>30 letters a day (which I sometimes do from this
>group), but multiply that by 4 or 5 groups, and
>you HAVE to keep them separated!

Think about having 400 members in this forum as soon as the LIT-site opens
up again. There are currently over 700 !!! people who ever tried to get
subscribed to the old (not working) newsletters. (Of course some might have
want to get unsubscribed, but where never able to).

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>Guys, I would be willing to be your librarian! Seriously, I'm the ONLY
>candidate for this, because every one else has jobs. I am great at 
>summing up and sorting info, and I could make programs to help me...
>Guys, i would LOVE this job! If anyone has objections, tell me..

Make programs to help you? Do you know that much about neural-net programming?
Summarizing isn't just glueing everything together, some "chit-chat" may
have useful information that just isn't in any separate letter. You may need
to keep track of everything that is written in 100 letters, not an easy job.
The best that you probably could do is get rid of a lot of the quotings (you
might be able to write a program to help you with that) but of course
sometimes the quotings cannot just be left out.

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>I meant that I wanted daily letters AS WELL AS a weekly summary of ALL 
>the letters, so summaries.. I don't know how other people feel about it,
>but that way whoever wants to can just delete all their mail for the
>week and save the one weekly one.. I mean, I already have like 200-300
>letters from you guys, but it could be compressed (weekly) into I 
>guess 4 or 5 letters. Saves no space, but relieves the clutter. 

I rather have the separate letters, makes searching a little bit easier
(assuming that people change the subject-line once in a while).

Since you are using Eudora, which has a nice and easy folder capability, it
should not be hard to keep track of the letters.

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