[B-Greek] A question about hosting this site.

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Oct 26 17:31:06 EDT 2006


On Oct 26, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Joe Hightower wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> Since you have experience with both sites, I will defer to your  
> judgement.
>
> I wonder if there might be value in compiling an FAQ contining  
> posts for that direclty answer questions that recur.  That is what  
> got me to thinking about the Yahoo! setup, if that can be done  
> here, it could prove to be a great resource.
>
> Again, I would be willing to help compile posts into an single  
> 'article', if that would help.
>
> Another thing that might be useful to others is a tabulatiuon of  
> those posts related to particular passages, a sort of reverse  
> directory.
>
> Google searching is good, but it requires that one look at each  
> listed post one at a time.  That is not convenieint for comparing  
> posts.
>
> Anyway, these are just suggestions.

Several years ago we seriously considered a topical index of  
correspondence in the archives on the recurrent topics, e.g. Greek  
pronunciation, textbooks, reference books, John 1:1c, tense/aspect,  
etc. There was talk of summarizing positions taken on some of the  
topics, but we abandoned that on grounds that some positions on  
conroversial issues simply do not lend themselves to an objective  
summarization by one not holding that position, and that of more  
immediate usefulness would be a topical index by Biblical texts in  
canonical order and grammatical topics in terms of a standard  
categorization. That's doable, I think, but it would be a  
considerable task, inasmuch as the subject-headers of messages are  
often poor indicators of what the messages focus upon. But that sort  
of thing is, I think, doable, and we do have a home-page for the list  
where such an index could be stored and accessed.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





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