in the current, electronic reality, there seems to be no software
that manages to filter the data-flood for articles of interest
"just right" -- too many articles do not have a very "informative"
Subject-header, and other headers (Keywords, Summary) tend to be
not much more useful (and are rarely present anyway) -- which means
that a moderated group or a private mailing list is about the closest
we can come to "a good newspaper, journal, or magazine" and a "good
discussion or brain-storm", either 'in-house' or at a public
conference.
Of course, what's frustrating many of us here is, probably, that we
do not seem to be able to, reliably, do better than communications
"on paper" or "in person", and that frustration tends to grow, the
longer we communicate electronically (the newness wears off) and the
more suffocating the electronic data flow we have to process (sheer
volume) becomes ....
---Werner
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