Hi all, I have a question I'd like to run before the list:
This morning I threw out the idea of setting up a humanities computing digest: that is to say a list that digests the traffic on important Hum Comp lists once a day but otherwise carries no traffic.
Talking about it later with somebody, they suggested to me that 1 digest message each day would not be an unreasonable burden on a list like DM.
Is this something people would appreciate? What I'm thinking is a list that simply subscribes to digital classicist, humanist, the junicode list, and I don't know what else, and is configured to send out a single digest message per day. If we subscribed dm-l to it as well, we would all receive this one message every day.
If the goal was to add a digesting feature to dm-l, I would set the dm-l subscription to "reject postings" so that our postings would not be duplicated in the digest, and set the other lists to "nomail" so they wouldn't receive it. Since many of us are subscribers to several of these lists, there would be some duplication in individual mail boxes.
The other option is to set up a separate digest and leave it at that.
Suggestions/ideas?
-d
I could see the point of gathering and archiving the traffic on several related lists for later searching and reference, although the propriety even of this seems a little dubious. But I see no point at all to distributing the kind of daily digest that you picture. To me it would simply be one more over-large message to threaten my mail quota and be deleted (the "D" key in Pine, of course). I dislike digest formats in general: the messages are large, hard to scroll through, very hard to filter successfully, and make it difficult either to follow a thread or (more important) to ignore the many threads in which one has no interest or expertise.
pfs
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all, I have a question I'd like to run before the list:
This morning I threw out the idea of setting up a humanities computing digest: that is to say a list that digests the traffic on important Hum Comp lists once a day but otherwise carries no traffic.
Talking about it later with somebody, they suggested to me that 1 digest message each day would not be an unreasonable burden on a list like DM.
Is this something people would appreciate? What I'm thinking is a list that simply subscribes to digital classicist, humanist, the junicode list, and I don't know what else, and is configured to send out a single digest message per day. If we subscribed dm-l to it as well, we would all receive this one message every day.
If the goal was to add a digesting feature to dm-l, I would set the dm-l subscription to "reject postings" so that our postings would not be duplicated in the digest, and set the other lists to "nomail" so they wouldn't receive it. Since many of us are subscribers to several of these lists, there would be some duplication in individual mail boxes.
The other option is to set up a separate digest and leave it at that.
Suggestions/ideas?
-d
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
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On 4/20/06, Daniel O'Donnell caedmon@uleth.ca wrote:
This morning I threw out the idea of setting up a humanities computing digest: that is to say a list that digests the traffic on important Hum Comp lists once a day but otherwise carries no traffic.
I'm new here; does anyone have a page of links to the major humanities computing lists? Two of the three mentioned by Dr O'Donnell are new to me.
Many thanks!
bw -- Bill White . minutiae@gmail.com . http://minutiae.stblogs.org
We have one in the wiki:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Mailing_lists
-d
On Thu, 2006-20-04 at 21:43 -0500, Bill White wrote:
On 4/20/06, Daniel O'Donnell caedmon@uleth.ca wrote: This morning I threw out the idea of setting up a humanities computing digest: that is to say a list that digests the traffic on important Hum Comp lists once a day but otherwise carries no traffic.
I'm new here; does anyone have a page of links to the major humanities computing lists? Two of the three mentioned by Dr O'Donnell are new to me.
Many thanks!
bw
-- Bill White . minutiae@gmail.com . http://minutiae.stblogs.org
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