On 8/5/2014 5:44 PM Walter Pachl said:
> Nothing as bad as a book cover without pages :-(
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Perhaps, Walter.
We all have our "nothing's as bad" list. Rick, for example, has a
thing about speculative informal bug reports. I, otoh, have gotten
very testy about folks hijacking a discussion thread, thereby
polluting the original discussion subject while burying the new one in
the archives and in any threaded listing.
You can't fool any sensible mailer into creating a new discussion
topic by hitting "Reply" and replacing the original 'Subject:' and
body text of the email. The mailer knows you hit "Reply" instead of
"New Mail" (or whatever it is on your mailer) and will still include
references to the original postings in your "new" posting.
I administer so many discussion listservers that I have literally lost
count (more than ten, less than twenty, I think). This is a pervasive
problem so I have highlighted the hotlink in each posting's footer (e.g.):
New Subject: [email protected]
This makes it easy for subscribers to start a new discussion subject
while reading a posting on a different topic. It still doesn't
register with many of my subscribers. :-(
But I do not administer the OORexx discussion lists, and I know you to
be a man of formidable intellectual skills and experience, so I will
simply point out that it takes exactly the same number of clicks (one)
to "Reply" to an irrelevant posting as it does to use the link at the
bottom of every posting to start a new topic. You don't even have to
clear out the 'Subject:' line or the quoted lines in the body of the
bogus "reply".
As to your original request:
RexxLA has always been a volunteer-supported (dis-)organization of
members demanding that some cat or another desperately needs to be
belled. Thus, 99% of the work has always been done by 1% of the
membership. Currently, that 1% is René, for whom I have the utmost
respect and sympathy, having worn those shoes for many years myself.
Very likely, the Symposium presentations are still extant and simply
need to be collected, collated, and uploaded to the RexxLA website.
This is not likely to be a task that will rise to the urgency of
getting the latest NetRexx release stable and available, or whatever
René is doing these days to earn a living.
It would, however, be an ideal task for a motivated retired Rexx
enthusiast to undertake. I can think of several excellent candidates,
can you?
Best Regards,
-Chip-
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