Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > I'm completely baffled by the failure to offer an
index,
> > with links to past articles.
The Magazine is in fact a
blog format, not a periodical. Therefore indexing would be somewhat
counter-intuitive.
Definition of "magazine" in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary):
"A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations,
often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership"
That seems to me to be an accurate description of the Fedora Magazine,
which appears regularly every week (I think), ie periodically,
and contains well-written articles by different authors.
That is not my idea of a blog.
I don't find anything "counter-intuitive" in an index,
particularly in a digital document.
I was looking for an article I recalled seeing in the Fedora Magazine,
and found the absence of an index, or indeed any link of any kind,
bizarre (as I said) and inconvenient.
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/
eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin