At 05:37 AM 10/13/2004, you wrote:

Some months ago I offered to help with burning CD-ROMs and DVDs. I've not heard anything more about this other than being put on this list - might there be a problem because I'm based in the UK?

-- Michael Quinion businessmail@quinion.com +44 1454 411128

Hi Michael. You're definitely not the only one on this list in this situation. The fact is that I was so busy with getting through the queue that a lot of offers of help unfortunately went unaccepted. That's why I formed this list. People were falling through the cracks and I thought that perhaps this list might at least enable me to communicate and coordinate things with all of you better. There's no problem with your location. We currently have two volunteers in Europe mailing discs for us. Here's how things stand right now. The queue that only a month ago was 400 requests long and looked like it was going to take months to get through is now only 50 requests long. By next week, it should be gone completely. This has caused a shift in problems. Before we had too much work and not enough help. Now, we've got a lot of help and almost no work. So, once again I would pose the question to the group, now that we have the queue under control, in which direction should we focus our attentions? I am personally in favor of making a new CD or DVD image. Right now there are a lot of files on the DVD which don't need to be there. I'm talking about the 30MB PDF files and the old versions of files which were included. If we were to go through and select files for the DVD one-by-one, I'm convinced that we could substantially increase the number of books and the quality of the DVD. I've been giving some thought as to how this task could even be distributed. Thoughts? Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)