I agree with Rosemary and Gary that we need tools to recast the material.
In particular, I would love a quick and effective way to look at 
a past mailing-list discussion, or even to catch up with a running thread
here ... My mailreader (Pine) is hopeless for this.

Edmund

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Gary McGovern wrote:

>  From: "Rosemary Michelle Simpson"
>  
>  >Mailing lists are for me a critical source of new
>  > insights precisely because they bring things to my attention.
>  >
>  > The issue, I think, is having a variety of tools for different mindsets
>  > that captures the same material.  This is the issue faced by information
>  > structure designers and indexers - providing different gateways into and
>  > different structures over the same material
>  
>  Yeah that sound about right. I'm currently studying MVC and think it is
>  really class; and now I know about this technology I just can't understand
>  why software generally only has one view of the domain and I think this
>  applies to simple things such as a newsgroup.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Gary
>  
>  
>