Return-Path: Delivery-Date: Received: from leopard.cs.byu.edu (no rfc931) by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.5) outside ac.uk; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:52:31 +0100 Received: by leopard.cs.byu.edu (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA28063; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 08:47:11 -0600 Sender: hol2000-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Errors-To: hol2000-request@lal.cs.byu.edu Precedence: bulk Received: from ULTRASTAR.EE.CORNELL.EDU by leopard.cs.byu.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA28059; Mon, 6 Jun 1994 08:47:07 -0600 Received: by ultrastar.EE.CORNELL.EDU (4.1/1.6.10+n-y-Cornell-Electrical-Engineering) id AA24834; Mon, 6 Jun 94 10:46:22 EDT Message-Id: <9406061446.AA24834@ultrastar.EE.CORNELL.EDU> From: markaa@ultrastar.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Mark D. Aagaard) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 10:46:21 -0400 Organization: Cornell University, Electrical Engineering, Ithaca NY 14853 X-Address: 389 Engineering and Theory Center X-Phone: (607) 255 0302 X-Fax: (607) 255 9072 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) To: hol2000@leopard.cs.byu.edu Subject: suggestion: archivists/secretaries? The WWW node for searching for hol-2000 mail messages ( ) is a great idea and works well. Presumably it is (almost?) entirely automated. I would like to make a proposal that will hopefully make the message archive even easier to use, but without adding significant work to any one peron. The proposal is that when a new thread of discussion starts on the list, someone volunteers to "archive" the thread. They would just collect the messages relevant to that thread and do minor editing to make the messages semi-hypertextish. For example, replacing inclusions of previous mails with links to the relevant point in the previous mail. Of course, forward links could be added to point to subsequent mails that cite the current mail and to other relevant threads. -mark aagaard markaa@ee.cornell.edu