Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 01:07:19 -0400
| From: | Alex Shapiro |
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alex@touchgraph.com> Reply-To: ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org |
| To: | ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org |
| Subject: | Great? idea for improving this list |
Hi everyone, and especially Eugene, who is the moderator for this list.
I just had a good idea for an eazy way to improve this forum.
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Why not make a list of metadata keywords that could optionally be prepended
to the subject line of posts to this group.
For instance, the subject for this post could have been
"[ListEnhancementIdea] Great? idea ..."
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Then, a script or whatever could check the headers, and put the posts into
groups. If someone replies to a post, then it would not be put into a
group because it begins with "RE: " (the "[" symbol has to come first for
it to be recognized as containing a keyword).
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The reason for this idea is that I wanted to mark Peter's post below as
containing a piece of software that I wanted to investigate. If Peter had
prepended a keyword to the subject line, say [CollaborationSoftware], then
this post could have been put into a group with other CollaborationSoftware
where it would be easy to find.
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See what I am saying? With these keywords Eugene could make a webpage that
looked like looked like http://www.fury.com (or at least some rough interface that
would look like the category list on the right).
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The great thing about this idea is that participation would be voluntary,
but peer pressure would probably get everyone to participate. Also, a
slightly annoying but functional thing to do in the case where someone did
not put a keyword in the subject would be to reply to the post with the
keyword in the subject line. (Or maybe we could think of a better web-based
interface for doing so).
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Also, (back on a techical tangent) multiple keywords could be supported,
i.e. [Keyword1, Keyword2].
What do you guys think?
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...Worst case, instead of a list of keywords, lets at least make a single
[SoftwareAnnounce] or [SA] keyword to keep track of just the posts that do
as the keyword says.
Sincerely,
--Alex
Alex Shapiro
alex@touchgraph.com