n Mon, December 12, 2011 7:01 am, Jim Adcock wrote:
Lee> Personally, I don't think the answer to the question is technical, Lee> so a technical solution is probably not going to resolve the issue.
Well, I agree with you about there not being a good technical solution
You may have missed my point. There is no technical solution because it is not a technical problem: it is a political/institutional problem.
I personally believe that PG needs to try to inform people about what the technical problems are. If not, then I don't see how PG can expect people to submit code that tries to avoid those problems?
Those individuals at PG's reins /don't/ expect people to submit code to avoid the (technical) problems. All they expect is for people to submit impoverished text versions of public domain books; other formats are tolerated simply because they're so popular they cannot be ignored, but I'm sure that most of the principals at PG would prefer that /no/ alternative versions be made available. Michael Hart always believed that /no/ guidance should be provided to volunteers, because some of them would be so resentful at being told what to do that they would abandon PG altogether (I guess those that abandon PG due to /lack/ of guidance don't count). How can you overcome that legacy?