Need for a new list?

[Ross, Rosemary]

I agree with this.  Being the only librarian in a small library, creator of 
the library's homepage, the reference-automation-BI- etc. librarian it is a 
big time saver for me to have all that is in web4lib as now.   Seeing the 
more technical threads has helped me with several things, & some were 
forwarded to the campus computer guru (who keeps the library 
computers-Internet-databases-printing-CD-ROMs-server going).

May of the technical topics are interrelated to access, how to ..., and 
policy issues.

Rosemary Ross, Librarian           rross at cgcc.cc.or.us
Columbia Gorge Community College
The Dalles OR

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>From: web4lib
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: RE: Need for a new list?
>Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 1:36PM
>
>I too, would like to see the technical/programming topics remain within
>web4lib. We all have delete keys for those threads for which we have
>neither time or interest.
>
>Has there been any feedback from the web4lib listowner?
>
>If there are two lists, people may subscribe to both, and questions that
>are relevant to both will inevitably get cross-posted, resulting in even
>more e-mail! Listservs have sort of a "genetic drift"  of their own. I
>am not sure that splintering off more listservs is a good solution.
>
>I would prefer to keep the diversity of topics the broad list offers,
>and discuss programming technique in the context of policy and content,
>and policy should be discussed with programmers and content folks
>around, etc, etc. We all rely on each other for that perspective.
>
>The archive of this list is a tremendous resource and I would hate to
>see its utility dissipated.
>
>Thanks for the .2!!
>
>
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>        -----Original Message-----
>        From:   murilo bastos cunha [SMTP:murilobc at guarany.cpd.unb.br]
>        Sent:   Monday, March 09, 1998 8:15 AM
>        To:     Multiple recipients of list
>        Subject:        Re: Need for a new list?
>
>        I agree with Ms Roberts and with the solution she proposed.
>Prof. Murilo
>        Cunha
>
>        On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 dianna.roberts at opus.co.nz wrote:
>
>        > I would not like to see a separate list limited to technical
>discussions
>        > only. Mailings on such topics could still be sent to Web4Lib
>but include in
>        > the subject header a phrase such as "Tech Topic" so that
>non-techies can
>        > delete without reading if wished. I am on a music mailing list
>which uses
>        > this ploy (except that in this case they use the phrase
>"Gearheads Only.")
>        >
>        > Although I do not generally have a specific need for any
>information on
>        > perl, cgi, etc. I find it useful to have an awareness of such
>issues,
>        > especially as I may one day unexpectedly find out that I am
>expected to know
>        > about them.
>        >
>        > Dianna Roberts
>        >
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