On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:08:48PM +0000, Thomas Bridge wrote:
> On 12/5/05, Ken Guest <ilug at ken.guest.cx> wrote:
>> > This is why I think it is especially important that
> > the main site is not seen to be stagnant.
>> Why?
>> It's clear from the homepage that the mailing list (which is really
> the core activity) is active.
>> So why do we need a non "stagnant site"?
Because we do get some great gems of posts/articles sent to the mailing list -
but links to them in the mailing list archive tend to be too transient; more so
when archives need to be regenerated as the URIs for those archived posts
change from one instance of the archive to the next.
It'd be a shame to get those useful posts go missing in action, wouldn't it?
Nobody should have to go on a click-fest either and articles on the site tend
to be less 'deeply situated' than postings in the archives - which means more
navigation for the easily frustrated.
k.
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