netiquette

[Guest guest]

To all:

 

Our active membership now includes many of the well known publishers

and writers in the field. From here on in, we should all assume that

someone famous we are talking about on this list may actually be

reading our words within minutes. I think we ned to be particularly

careful about speculating about others motives as opposed to their

technical arguments. We all have vested interests and we all pretty

much know what those interests are. Since no one is trying to deny

these vested interests, I think it is a straw man argument to focus

on

this issue. In other words, we cannot dismiss an argument merely

because someone stands to gain if they are proved right. So lets not

even go there.

 

 

thanks

 

[Guest guest]

On the subject of netiquette,

 

It's long been considered a breach of netiquette to post attachments to a

high-volume mailing list. So many different mail clients and news readers

handle attachments differently (or not at all), and so many people are using

different software in different versions to create their documents that it

just isn't practical. It also increases download time, which others have

already noted as an issue with this list.

 

If what we're talking about is important enough to post to the list, it is

important enough to make certain that it is accessible to all rs.

 

For those who feel they simply must offer information in a proprietary

format, an alternative would be to upload the file and provide a summary and

a link in your message.

 

For formatted text, with or without graphics, HTML works beautifully and

nearly all document processors nowadays will save your work as HTML. Todd

has kindly done this with a number of files that were originally posted as

attachments.

 

My two cents,

 

Jeffrey