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Subject: Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)
> Can we kill this discussion?
> There
Can we kill this discussion?
There's nothing wrong with this list.
If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you
accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who
here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things?
Li
Can we kill this discussion?
There's nothing wrong with this list.
If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you
accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who
here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things?
This p
For what it's worth; I didn't read Fran's original suggestion as "asking that
every post be tagged in some way." I thought she was only recommending that
we establish a small set (no more than 4, say) of common tags (such as
"CHAT:") that people would be encouraged to use. I apologize for
On Monday 17 July 2006 1:53 am, Robin Netherton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
> > So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
> > computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
> > substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
>
I fully agree with all you said. I have no desire to set up a tagging
system so complicated that people either can't remember it or spend 10
minutes per post agonizing over whether the tag should be VICT: or ACW:
or 19C:. I think it would be a good idea to figure out exactly how
many tags p
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
everything else?
I don't like the idea of having "topic tags."
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Robin Netherton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
>
> > So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
> > computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
> > substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
> > everyt
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote:
> So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos,
> computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a
> substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for
> everything else?
That strikes me as being more likely to su
I'm afraid I don't see such a system as easy to implement on h-cost, where
we have a membership that's extremely diverse, representing people from
many countries and of varying levels of ease at handling language and
niggly bits of formatting.
In fact many more h-costume members are native Eng
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> I think this is an excellent idea and second Fran's recommendation
> that we implement it on h-costume.
I have seen this work extraordinarily well on exactly one list -- a list
for copyeditors, who are, by definition, able to deal with deta
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