Forum Archive Index - December 2001

["G Stolwyk" <stolwyk@wave.co.nz>]

Terry and Craig,

 

Thank you for those sites.

This updated List of web sites and a lot of other material will be transferred to the LTI series early next week.

 

The next update to this List may not be for another 3 months and only a few ultra excellent sites will be selected.

( If any of your sites are selected, they will be in that update ). 

 

The main reason is that we want to keep up the quality of this world class List ( There is no other! ).

 

Too many posts overlapping others, will bring down the quality. The greater the number of sites, the less people will refer to them. However, the creation of different catagories helps with extending the number of sites. 

 

At this stage, there is still room for another 3 or so US sites and some 2 UK sites. Perhaps 2 Australian sites may fit in as well.

 

Some readers may want to know how many hours have been spent on evaluation, revaluation and finally selecting the websites:

 

I had to select x sites out of 37 UK sites. Only 10 were selected; that is about one in every four. Obviously, this was a gruelling job and one would go mad unless one appreciates the importance of the job! 

 

I have checked out up to 8 sub sites of the same web site. 

That UK job took me at least 14 hours net! And this was after obtaining a lot of experience in selecting previous sites!

 

( That time included the preparation of comment or reshaping existing comment and cross checking of sites ). 

 

The US job offered 35 web sites and I selected 13. Because some of the sites were more unique, it took less time, about 11 hours.

 

What I am trying to say is that most people don't realize that  this List of Web sites has such great value!

 

I was lucky because the donors of these sites ( who took a long time to collect them ) appreciated the benefits this List will bring and many were regular posters. Otherwise, people may not have wanted to part with these sites!

 

So, if you are credited with an URL of a web site on that List, don't be surprised if your name appears on a copy being read in other countries!

 

Gerry Stolwyk

PS: May I suggest that before anybody supplies more web sites, he/she compares the content with that of existing sites on that List!