Resources worth our webspace?

Sat Mar 30 16:06:01 PST 2002

  If anybody would like to spearhead gathering the names and contact-URLs
  of the lists we as sysadmins use most,  I and the other board members 
  can easily turn it into a Resources page, or one of several, on the
  BayLISA website.

  The same can be done for a list of books we all keep relatively handy
  at our desks;  some raw attempts have been made that direction in the
  past, but just didn't get enough steam yet to get turned into a page.
  Maybe someone was afraid they'd look like a walking advertisement for
  a certain publisher noted for its woodcuts ;>

  For each reference, a sentence or two about why it's useful would also
  help.  Most of the contact-URLs for lists I've seen are either the raw
  sub.unsub interface, or they are, shall we say, rather wordy.

For my own part the lists-resource would be kicked off with

  SANS Security update
	sans.org
	You can choose which platforms and foci to get security updates
	about, plus it's fairly timely and concise, with URLs to further
	explain the matters that are worth extra study.

  debian-laptops
	lists.debian.org
	More specific to laptops, thus covers matters of odd hardware, 
	and a lot less volume and higher clue-ratio than debian-users.
	Also web-searchable :)

Dunno if I have the remaining cycles to be its core volunteer (amend,
I know for sure I don't this weekend), but if there is enough content
among the batch of us, we can turn it into a couple of URLs we can drop
people into, instead of a discussion-fest when other lists apply best.
I think that'd be a worthy thing for BayLISA to offer out-of-area sysads
to look at, too.

Thoughts?

-* Heather Stern * star at starshine.org * Starshine Technical Services *-