---------------------------------------------------------- Lightning-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 09/09/12: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 09:07 AM - Re: All set up for the weekend. (n5pb@AOL.COM) 2. 03:57 PM - Re: Lightning Newsletter Booklets (Caithness Manor) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 09:07:38 AM PST US Subject: Re: Lightning-List: All set up for the weekend. From: n5pb@AOL.COM Looks great. Hope you have a good weekend and a safe return to KSYI. Bear -----Original Message----- From: Nick Otterback Sent: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 1:37 pm Subject: Lightning-List: All set up for the weekend. Sent from my pocket 


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________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 03:57:50 PM PST US Subject: Lightning-List: Re: Lightning Newsletter Booklets From: "Caithness Manor" [Idea] It seems such a lot of work to go printing, or even manually indexing newsletters when the nub of the issue is ready access to a topic, no matter where it exists. I understand people wanting hard copy in their workshop, or to take somewhere to discuss with someone else - paper will always be the best human interface, and I prefer paper too, but....... It seems to me that customers want quick access to all entries about a problem they have with their build project so they can avoid mistakes made by others. I don't know about costs for Arion, but there are brilliant text indexing and retrieval systems available like ISYS (or Google for that matter) which would allow customers to query Arion's entire server network regardless of where the document sits and its format. So the build manual and all newsletters and the website itself (just depends on what Arion allows) can be interrogated for example on topics like "brakes, with or without a reference to Matco". The customer sees a list of all entries like a web-based Google answer, can open in read-only and print if required, and in sub-second response times. If made available to customers only, the cost could be spread across that community minimising Arion's licence fees (I've no idea of likely costs) and it could probably be less than the per person printing costs Buz is being quoted. Alternately Arion could do it as a value-add service for everyone, and reap the benefits of ensuring they have perfect version controls over their manuals by never over-looking a technical reference to any topic during upgrades or cross referencing. ISYS was an Aussie software product I came across in 1989 at KPMG and it has this year been sold to Lexmark. It's used by US Homeland Security, the Las Vegas Police and many other sites worldwide, so has the credentials. It will index Autocad as well as hundreds of file formats. http://www.isys-search.com/products/document-filters As others here have said, only negative is web downtime when it occurs, but ease and elegance of access knowing you've found every reference is surely the point, 24x7 globally. Lots of trees saved too! Oh, and no I don't have shares in it. Someone with better knowhow might be able to source a better product/price point. Always enjoy reading the forum, but rarely post anything, so sorry for this rather long one. Cheers everyone, Paul Smith, Angaston, Sth Aussie. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=382772#382772 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message lightning-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Lightning-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/lightning-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/lightning-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.