On Tue, 17 May 2005, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hi. Michael Hart is requesting people to fill in for him to do part one. My understanding is that he wants someone to take it over entirely. Personally, I miss the former portion done by Alice Wood. I would still be interested in editing this part of the newsletter, but people stopped responding to my email. I was in communication with Greg, Michael and a few others but I was never told what I was supposed to do or how. I gathered that I was supposed to draft something, but I was never told just how this would be sent to the list or if I was allowed to post to the newsletter list. I almost never read part one now either because it isn't organized well and is mostly a boiler plate of the same thing in every weekly issue. I would like to informally interview DP people, posters, book producers, etc on a weekly or monthly basis. Nothing fancy, just something less formal than a full interview. Hopefully some clear guidelines can be given to me to work out something like this. I think there is still room for more from the PG newsletter if it is done and organized correctly.
As for the organization of PT1, the complaints are self-defeating: if it is really mostly boilerplate, then the organization is obvious to anyone who had read it before, not to mention a table of contents. The portions that change the most from week to week are also obvious, and thus whether it is your desire to only read the parts that change, or to only read the weekly review of new eBooks, it is quite simple, you know where to look. Michael