Re: Seperate list or consolidated listing? (was Re: [seul-edu]Neweducational app--reading)

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Dittos from a teacher who appreciates Doug's efforts!
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: SteelHead <bill@ries-knight.net>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Saturday, September 08, 2001 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Seperate list or consolidated listing? (was Re: [seul-edu]
Neweducational app--reading)


>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
>To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
>Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:33 PM
>Subject: Seperate list or consolidated listing? (was Re: [seul-edu] New
>educational app--reading)
>
>*By my count, there are fifty postings of new educational software in
>*seul-edu, the vast bulk of all content in the past week.
>
>Actually, since the beginning of July, we have had ~85 that are on this
>subject that Doug has posted.
>
>*I've only been on list for about a week, but find this disruptive.  Any
>*possibility we could consolidate the listing, or have a seul-edu-sw list
>*to which such announcements (and discussion) would be appropriate?
>
>Adding these messages to the list does a couple of things... most folks on
>the list are just lurkers, and they wait to see what comes by that is of
>interest.  Listing the apps in the messages this way allows these folks,
who
>may not have the time, bandwidth, or desire to search for apps to know that
>apps are developed or in development.  As there are few lists around that
>actually cater to education and Linux, we are the focal point
>
>The second point is the SEUL archives are crawled by search engines
>regularly, and it is an easy way to disseminate the presence of Linux
>Education Application information.  A *very* valuable service to the rest
of
>the Linux community.
>
>Btw, this is the *only* time Doug has done bulk listngs of this nature and
>scale in almost 3 years, and now is the normal time for teachers to be
>searching for stuff for the new school year.  I think we can deal with the
>status quo.
>*Cheers.
>
>--
>Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
>
>