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[Dan Robinson Indexing Services]

No, No, No, a thousand times No. 

The great strength of this list is that it is not divided. Questions 
and answers come from all over the library spectrum.  The Dr. Laura 
message was posted by someone with an agenda, not someone who is 
interested in making web access in libraries work. Since he's gone 
now, the list has gotten back to being one of the best technical  
library web resources around.  

I also have a personal reason that probably applies to more than a 
few folk here. I'm on quite a few lists. If this list split, I'd have 
to be on all of them too. I would never know where a query or 
response related to my work would come up. 

Dan Robinson
drobinson at hwwilson.com


On 12 May 99 at 7:00, John Christensen wrote:

> Since there are so many divergent interests within the librarian
> community, it might be better, if possible, to sub-divide the web4lib
> into various interest subgroups, such as censorship, Dr. Laura, web
> management, or whatever.  Whoever could then (un)subscribe to whatever
> whenever (s)he wants.  What an immense subject area to be subsumed under
> one mailing list rubric!  Diversify, then specialize or generalize to
> the blood-pump's content.  Has anyone ever tried "brainstorming" certain
> issues, problems in a mailing list?
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