As someone who already monitors five listservs, I would like to respond
to Robbin's suggestion...
 
In many ways (and with varying degrees of abuse!), this kind of activity
is what occurs upon the lists. By commercializing, you may marginalize
some of the very people you are hoping to reach. Indeed, many people are
only on the lists because because the lists get distributed back through
the commercial services.
 
When the New York Times was running a series of articles on the New York
Historical Society debacle last year, the ARCHIVES-L had numerous
excerpts posted that kept many of us informed. Additionally, there are
frequent excerpts from more obscure or less available publications
appearring there all the time.
 
We REALLY need to be careful about how we all contribute the
proliferation of *information clutter*. Does the world really need
ANOTHER gopher? IMNNSHO...(that's *In my not-necessarily-so humble
opinion* 8-)...)
 
 
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On Thu, 3 Feb 1994, Robbin Murphy wrote:
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> Seems to me that we need some kind of electronic "newspaper" for
> museum issues that will keep everyone up-to-date by collecting
> information in one place and alert readers to important articles
> in journals and newsletters they might not normally read. Seems
> that some spunky entrepreneur could develop something that would
> be worth paying for.
 
> Robbin Murphy
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