{groups} [HPFGU-Catalogue] Peg Kerr's essays

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "corinthum" <kkearney at s...> 
wrote:
> Regarding Peg Kerr's posts, Paul wrote:
> 
> > I think these should also be given their own category.  > 
> 
> I disagree.
> In our final product, will there be a way to search by post author?
> Although there are certainly certain people whose entire collection 
of posts is worth reading, I don't feel there should be individual
> categories dedicated to said people.  


Carolyn:
I think Kelly is right, it would be a mistake to start giving 
individual posters their own category (as we decided earlier with 
Ivan the Terrible). Anyway, where do you stop? It would be too 
difficult to justify exclusions IMO.

We haven't yet discussed searching by named author on this particular 
catalogue, having focused on the subjects so much. I am sure it is 
easy-enough to do if we wanted it (?Paul -what do you think?). I 
certainly like the idea of being able to pull out all an author's 
posts in one place, having made this tremendous effort to sort the 
wheat from the chaff. It would mean we had the cream of that person's 
work all together - very useful.

On the coding of Peg..I will go back and add some key ones. But not 
dozens probably. At the time, she actually got relatively few 
responses to the posts, which is a pity. I am sort of using the 
resulting threads to guide me on what aspects of the original posts 
people found most interesting. Tricky; they are very broad in their 
scope.

Carolyn