re: [gutvol-d] no, the problem is

melissa said:
Last time he went away from the DP forums, he threatedned to tell the world the truth about DP --is that the one?
"threatened"? to "tell the truth"? are there some desperate housewives over at d.p.? that's quite a vivid imagination you've got, melissa. there are some problems with the d.p. workflow -- some rather glaring ones, when you consider how many people are laboring under those flows, who should see where they need improvement -- and i will make independent digitizers _smarter_ about what chronology they should use instead, but that's hardly an expose on "entertainment tonight"... so you're just more noise here, intended as a smear. and speaking of gutvol-d as an "umbrella" listserve, i'm wondering how many of the subscribers here are interested in the slightest bit about the specifics of .tei markup, of the type permeating the threads today? it's another example of the techies chasing people away. -bowerbird

Bye Bye, This list could be so good, but the pricks have spoiled it again. I'll give it a try in another year I suppose. I must have proofed 10 books at least for Gutenberg, why not a list for proven contributors only? Regards Tom Harris BeacyBooks beacybooks@bigpond.com

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:06:09PM +1000, Tom Harris wrote:
Bye Bye,
This list could be so good, but the pricks have spoiled it again. I'll give it a try in another year I suppose.
Sorry to hear that, Tom, but I do understand. I'd have dropped gutvol-d long ago except that I feel a duty to stay with it, even if I no longer read most of it.
I must have proofed 10 books at least for Gutenberg, why not a list for proven contributors only?
I'd second that, except that (a) it'd be really hard to separate out "proven contributors" by definition or observation -- too many borderline cases -- and (b) we don't want to exclude newbies who really do want to learn and make real contributions: remember, we were all newbies once. jim

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jim Tinsley wrote:
I'd second that, except that (a) it'd be really hard to separate out "proven contributors" by definition or observation -- too many borderline cases -- and (b) we don't want to exclude newbies who really do want to learn and make real contributions: remember, we were all newbies once.
Indeed. If you look back on the recently mentioned old web-board, you can find posts from some newby called "Andrew Sly" asking questions about handling italics, paragraphs with only one quote mark, extra space in contractions, etc. :) Andrew
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