The link list on network policy
Lists and web publishing
Tony Barry,
Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
Australian National University.
tony@ningaui.anu.edu.au
Abstract
Five years ago the link@www.anu.edu.au email list was formed as a
discussion forum on Australia network policy. The quality of the
debate on this list has been high with participation from senior
levels of universities, the media, industry and government. Much
of the discussion has been aided by participants publishing, via
the web, significant contributions to the debate consolidating
what has gone before and providing links to the main sources on
the topics covered. Without use of the web to provide a publishing mechanism for more
thoughtful contributions, this list would have not have been so
successful if based only on email.
Analysis of the content of the archiveprovides
some interesting information on similarities between publishing
behaviors in lists and in journals.
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