Date:         Thu, 22 May 2003 20:36:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
In-Reply-To:  <20030522.211144.332.3.wilden1@juno.com>
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So i like the idea of setting it up with the bentley
categorization, and i understand what you are saying,
too, Stan.  So why not impliment that into how this is
organized?

It seems there should be a sort of quality review
feedback (that whole - "was this review helpful? 1-5"
thing).  Then, as all the 1,000 list members go
through the archives, the helpful posts will naturally
arise.  Give that a few months, then you break out the
cream into the bently sections.

This method is pretty organic, doesn't require nearly
as much concerted effort from one or two individuals,
should hopefully not be too easily mess-uppable, and
would hopefully translate well into some level or
automation(?) (although i don't know how...)

Anyway, just my spin on this.  Keep in mind i'm a
mechanical engineer, which typically means i don't
know how people think :-)



--- Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM> wrote:

> One person downloaded the archives onto CD roms and
> it consumed three
> 900meg CDs. That is a lot to deal with when you
> consider it is all in
> ASCII text.
> The King James version of the bible will fit on a
> 1.44 floppy in ASCII
> text.
> Using that comparison it's enough to scare the
> bejesus out of you.
> We speculated that 80% of the archives are trivia
> and the remaining
> content is duplicated many times, by many
> contributors.


=====
'84 Westy (Sparky)
'65 Kharma Ghia (Dharma)

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