Hey all,

I'd like to point to us toward what someone in biblical studies has done: http://biblioblog.net/

The site is mostly oriented toward blogs, hence the name, (btw, not enough of you have good blogs out there. Neither do I.) but if y ou scroll down the left menu you'll also note a "Lists/Discussions" heading that does post some messages from email lists in the field. I note though that at least the ones for today are all from yahoo groups email lists rather than university based lists, so that might present a problem in setting up the system. But since I have faith in medievalists and our use of technology I believe we could find a way to adapt this to Dan's proposal.

Larry Swain

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

Tel. +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191

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