On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
If you think you have something positive to contribute to PG, please do so. Abusing me for my choice of which sacrifices I am willing to make, or not willing to make, does not represent a contribution to PG, nor does it encourage my continuing contributions to PG.
Which is why I've killfiled Bowerbird, and I believe that PG should permanently eject him for their mailing lists.
However, at the very least the acidity of Bowerbirds remarks reaffirms my contention that PG needs to allow volunteers like myself to submit files in the volunteer’s choice of file formats, NOT Bowerbirds.
That's not a rational argument. Whatever the base file formats are, Project Gutenberg, like most archives, needs to pick one or a small set of them so that the people who use Project Gutenberg can know what they need to read the files. A PG text reader can't be demanded to understand any file that anyone cares to use, and nobody can be expected to understand Word 95 files, and similar garbage that infects indiscriminate archives. Â -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.