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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a WWW page on authorship
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Hmmm.  It seems that a lot of people lot of people are taken with this 
idea; rightfully so, it's a good one.

I have started a little bit on one of my own.  My intent was to move the 
material which it referenced into local pages so that the whole could be 
more integrated and less of a disorienting pile of links that try to draw 
you off.

I have downloaded the rai-f archive from ftp.gmd.de (to April 96) and run 
it through an amazing program called Mhonarc that threaded it all very 
nicely.    My intent is to mine it (and make it available for others to 
mine) for the golden posts that Graham refers to and which we all know 
are there.

Already I have found Magnus' post from back at the last competition 
called "An embarrassment of riches?" which developed into a very 
interesting discussion.

The archive is Web-accessible, and to forestall any cries of "where can I 
get to it?", it's at http://www.truespectra.com/~svanegmo.  Be nice to my 
employer and don't download the whole thing.  The more I procrastinate, 
the more content I will add (expect a spike this weekend).

If someone really takes to this thing with a lot of zest, I'd be more 
than happy to hand over the result of my work.  One of the curses of the 
Web is that information is as distributed as it is.  Having 10 places 
with similar content and links doesn't help as as having one definitive 
reference.

/Steve
