Regarding the questions about statistics-- C.Wolfhuegel (sp?) in France
had built up a really outstanding and beautiful statistics tracking
routine and report for FAQ accesses based on his site many months
(perhaps over a year ago). I have lost track of his effort. Does anyone
know if he is still running it? If he is not, I hope that someone can
tell me or T.Fine-- T.Fine seems like an excellent person to look at
the scripts that Wolfhuegel came up with. Wolfhuegel has developed a
system whereby archivers can send raw FTP data to him to process for a
centralized statistical tabulation procedure.
I think these kinds of services are immensely valuable to the net and
fit in with a future vision of `ratings servers' that help people
navigate the net and determine where the really `valuable' data is. In
fact, I asked Wolfhuegel to post his statistics to news.lists
regularly, but that never happened. I still think there is a lot of
merit in doing this. I volunteer my programming abilities to anyone who
would like to dedicate computational resources to this task of
tabulation of activity.
Finally, it appears to me that the current FAQ system at rtfm.mit.edu
is bulging at the seams. It is really just a matter of time before the
onslaught of FAQs overwhelms the systems that are currently handling
them. J.Kamens has built up an outstanding collection of tools and I
hope that others can come up with alternative public archival and
posting sites, because rtfm.mit.edu seems to be overwhelmed and a rather weak spot.
I hope that the FAQ accesses can continue to be seamless, transparent,
and convenient even as J.Kamens begins his yearlong stay in Israel. Mr.
Kamens, perhaps you could post more information on this subject-- when
you are leaving and how operations will be affected in your absence.
You posted a list of the new maintainers, but obviously other realms
will be affected, such as not being able to update the posting scripts?
Some people hate it when I do this (thank/recognize others publicly--
in no way am I `authorized' to do so <g>), but I really want to commend
J.Kamens and everyone else who has put together rtfm.mit.edu. I and
everyone else here (and really, most of the net) owes an enormous debt
of gratitude to them for building up an extremely stable, reliable, and
convenient FAQ infrastructure. I think we are going to realize how much
we have taken for granted as JIK goes away for awhile.
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