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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Building a Personal Submersible
Well, therein lies the problem. I suppose there is some obvious gruff
that could come out, but it wouldn't take long to get into an area that
one person would say "dump it" and another would say "no, that's
important info I can use". I think the email archives serve their
intended purpose which is to document the activity of the mailing list.
At this point, trying to go through them to even get rid of just the
obvious junk would be a major undertaking. I think a better plan is to
let the mailing list archives continue as is, and come up with white
papers, FAQ's, and other similar things (wiki perhaps) that would
highlight the technical information that can get lost in the mailing
list archives. Alan Clifford is already working on redoing the FAQ
page, so that's a start.
A critical part of this being successful though is having someone say,
"Hey, capture that and categorize it". Alan James is probably correct
that the water vapor information should be captured into a white paper,
but frankly I didn't even think of that when I was writing that email.
We probably tend to think "in the moment" for the issue that is before
us, and not long term that the same information will be useful to
someone else 5 years from now. Like anything else you search for on the
web, when you have to be fairly specific in the search words that you
use to search the email archives. Anyway, one way to start isolating
information is to use the specific email forums targeted to certain
discussions. Since the rule is that "small talk" is not allowed in
those forums, searches would be easier and more meaningful there.
There's a lot of information that comes through here. I don't think
there's any one easy solution to getting at specific information. In my
mind, the design tools page is where we should concentrate building our
information base. Resources & Reference -> Design & Fabrication ->
Design Tools or http://www.psubs.org/design
Since everything on that page is not a "tool" we can change the name,
but the layout allows categories and sub-categories.
Jon
vbra676539@aol.com wrote:
Maybe Jon could ruminate on this some and figure a way to categorize
useful stuff. But then, who chooses what?
Vance
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan James <alanjames@xtra.co.nz>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Sun, 31 May 2009 6:37 pm
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Building a Personal Submersible
Hi Vance,
I'm not meaning that the emails we are sending are garbage, as I've
contributed to a few.
But because I'm not so far down the track, I've had to spend a fare
bit of time doing word searches
in the archives of our emails to find information, and these contain
everything including your email
and mine wich will come up in a search on "building a personal
submersible" but won't be of help to anyone (garbage).
I'm agreeing with Alan who suggested a psub group book and provided
subject headings.
I photocopy a lot of the good emails and file them under subject
headings, I even have some of yours
on welding. If we could have some sort of online book with the best
emails, white papers and links it would
go a long way to helping people in the future. I don't know exactly
how this would work or could work but think it's
worth discussing. Just recently Jon put through a good technical email
on condensation in subs wich was as good
as a white paper but in the future could be difficult for someone to
find. If this was nominated to go in an online book
it would be easily accessed later on.
Any thoughts on the merit of the book idea?
regards Alan
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