[General] Examples of good mailing list summaries

Ted Leung twl at osafoundation.org
Wed Mar 22 14:42:30 PST 2006


Katie and I were talking about examples of good mailing list summaries.  
It's easier to show than to tell, so here are some examples of summaries 
that I like.

Kernel-Traffic was the cadillac of summaries, but unfortunately, the 
summarizer burned out:
http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20051127_335.html

The Python-dev summary is also really good
http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2006-01-01_2006-01-15/

Debian's weekly news is not really a summary, but gives a different angle
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/10/

The Dr. Dobbs Python-URL! is a different take -- it points out 
good/interesting threads
http://lwn.net/Articles/174597/

I just like the use of color in the Ruby Weekly news summaries
http://www.rubyweeklynews.org/20060305.html

Many of these are indexed from the Linux Weekly News <http://lwn.net>, 
which is a great resource.

Ted


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