Robert- as a newcomer to the list I started to use gopher to search the
archives- please keep it going- I believe it can help me alot as I
research what museums are doing in their efforts to become sites on the
internet.
 
Thank you for your effort, much appreciated.
 
Mark Stanley
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New Technologies Project-
The Walker Art Center
 
On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Robert Guralnick wrote:
 
>         Hi All ---
>
>         I was going to ask this sooner, but just today got
> around to posting.  I have been archiving Museum-l and then
> indexing it so it is available for searching via gopher.  I
> started doing this, with the help of John Chadwick, the list
> owner, on January 1 of 1994... that is over a year ago.  During
> the last year, this list created over 9 million bytes of
> information.  During the indexing, the word "museum" was
> thrown out because it was used too many times.  Over ten thousand
> messages were sent out.  This is a lot of activity.
>
>         The question I have is this.  Has anyone found this service
> worthwhile?  Does anyone use this service to back track and see
> if a question has already been asked or find out if the same topic
> dressed up in new participants and new words is circulating through
> again?  Does anyone use this service at all?  Should I continue to
> keep the old archive around or should I dump it and start anew with
> this year. Should I dump the whole idea?
>
>         If you want to grab a look at this searchable archive, point
> your gopher or Web client to:
>
> gopher://ucmp1.Berkeley.EDU:70/00/MLists/museuml
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert Guralnick   | Museum of Paleontology   | University of California
> Berkeley, CA 94720 | [log in to unmask] | (510) 642-9696
>