On Nov 1, 3:33pm, Paul Deards wrote:

Subject: Re: Battle of the Chem Lists

Having lots of lists of chemistry links is an inefficient use of all the undoubted enthusiasm and experience out there. However, settling on a single centralised site as the 'authoritative list' is not the answer

The answer is to follow the ethos of the web - decentralise. . We should encourage the growth of specialist lists of links, and have a central index of these lists, ie use the 'WWW Virtual Library' aproach. This way we harness experience but don't stifle enthusiasm.

All this needs is a bit of organisation. Any offers?

-- End of excerpt from Paul Deards

This is a good idea. How about if all the lists were separate - but located on the same server - and each set of lists mirrored to other servers. This would make it easy to set up a search engine for all the lists, and keep the load off just one central server...... Know what I mean??? Tim P.S. I'd be keen to help out.... ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)