[General] Examples of good mailing list summaries

[Brian Kirsch]

I think the OSAF mailing list summaries were a great idea. They make it 
much easier
to stay informed given the huge volume of mail on the lists.

So definitely a big +1.

-Brian

Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard St. 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.osafoundation.org



Ted Leung wrote:

> 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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