Link List Posting

[Steve]

I have a few link lists from the 'Grownup' groups that I have compiled
on various subjects as well as a couple of non-specific 'Grownup' link
lists.

Have we determine if we are going to compile these? And have we
determine where and how they are going to be compiled? Were can I post
them, or who can I send them too?

Here is the format that I typically use-

From:  "iana_abadi" <leiaflute at h...>
Date:  Sat Jul 19, 2003  5:01 pm
Subject:  The next Peter Pettigrew
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/71699
Long Thread. Changes into a discussion of Ron becoming Prefect.


Mostly, I use this because it's easy to cut-and-paste. It really is
relatively quick, two cut&pastes (From/Date/Subject then Link), and a
quick note.

After the link, I add a short note, if necessary, to indicate anything
that might be unusual about that post, or it might be a good place to
add additional related subjects that could be searched; a crude form
of cross referencing.

In this case, even though the subject line is about Peter, the post is
actually about Ron and evolves into a thread about Ron becoming
Prefect, and I have included Ron's name in the /note/.

Addmitedly, many of my link lists point to my own posts, but those
links will take you into threads that have many intersting posts. 

I haven't followed this format religiously, mostly I've made these
link lists for myself, but in the later ones, this is the format I try
to use.

Suggestion-

If people are serious about this, we (or you) could try to asemble a
team of volunteers to search through specific blocks of posts in a
systematic way and catagories post by subject.

Example:

Person A-
Searches posts 10,000 through 12,000 for a two week period
catagorizing posts in a set of predetermined subject catagories and
adding new catagories as necessary.

Typical Catagories-
Primary - Characters
... ... Secondary - Ron, Harry, Hermione, Percy, Molly, Arthur,
Voldemort, etc...

Primary - Story Theories
... ... Secondary - 'Good Slytherin', 'Magical Dishwasher', 'Who will
die', etc...

Primary - Wizard World Theories (theories on the inner workings of the
wizard world)
... ... Secondary - Beasts (thestrals, dragons,...), Artifacts (wands,
brooms, Portkeys...)
... ... Secondary - Magical Theory (apparation, protections, spells,
charms, curses, ...) 

Etc...

Many of these overlap, but with an added note of basic terms under the
link, they could easily be cross referenced for search.

Keep in mind that we are talking about searching over 100,000 posts;
that's no small task. However, if a large group of people volunteered
and agreed to search a certain number of posts in a certain period of
time, we could gradually work our way through the list. 

One method might be to systematically search the current year, once
it's cataloged, move to the previous year. Keep in mind that the year
2003 generated over 30,000 posts. July of that year totalled 8,234 alone.

I have a free text editor that allows you to open multiple text files.
When I am gathering links, I have serveral files open, each file
dealing this a different subject catagory, and cut&paste the info as I
come accross interesting links. If I need a new catagory, I just
create a new file.

Not sure to what extent I can participate, but I am intersted in the idea.

Just curious.

Steve/B_Boymn (was bboy_mn, was asian_lovr2, was boybluemn)