What's up with Network-Lawyers

Hi David:

Welcome back to Network-Lawyers. After Lew pulled the plug some years back (October, 2001) about a dozen of so of the net-lawyers alumni decided to carry on. After we got things buzzing again, that was about two years ago, I talked the gang of twelve into experimenting with a series of online seminars, focused discussions, with guest speakers, a topic and a discussion outline for the speaker and a panel drawn from the gang of twelve and others who joined in to help carry the ball, keeping the discussion rolling.  Our biggest, best and last such seminar was on Search Engines, February 2004--a bunch of law librarians join in with us--it was a great show.  We had scheduled stuff for March, April, May but I ran out of steam as getting them organized and publicized was taking a lot of time. 

Please do sign on to the list.  I am trying to get it running again.  I am thinking that the series of programs generated too much traffic during the week that the program ran for most users to contend with so that the filtered the posting from the group off to a folder, switched to digest or worst yet set the  list to no mail so that they could read from the web.  In any event after a very successful series of monthly seminars the list died down.

Another thought is that about the same time many of our most active participants including a good number of the gang of twelve plus who were carrying the ball for the seminars became bloggers and their online interactivity shifted to the blogging, RSS and all.

Others have suggested that with email overload the discussion lists are on a shake down cruise with subscribers, like I mentioned above, are going for web only or sending much of their list generated message traffic off to file folders. 

Perhaps Lew's conclusion that the list had served its purpose was right. But I have decided to give this another run for the money.  Please sign on to the group via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network-lawyers

John

John DeBruyn Denver CO USA

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I am a reference librarian at Temple University and owner/moderator of the Net-Gold list on Yahoo Groups.  I post law resources on Net-Gold and to various law lists  including LegalMed and LawLib as well as CNI-Copyright.  I was a contributor to the old Net-Lawyers list owned by Lew Rose.  I have also contributed to the Technolawyer Group as well.  I specialize in database searching and internet resources as well and am a subject specialist in recreation, tourism, health, and physical education. 
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http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks

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