[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux

  • From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:16:56 -0600

Thank you Dr. Cross,  yours has been  a Thorough treatment of the matter 
at hand" or is it a "compact biography?" of me.  Thank goodness it is not 
a "Love Inspired Romance".

Guido Dante Corona
IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
Research Division,
Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web:  http://www.ibm.com/able




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I want to support Mary's comments.  Not only is Guido vigorously trying to
    impose his standards, but he has made this a very unpleasant list with
which to be associated.  He routinely downs other volunteers, forgetting
that we, too, are customers as well as volunteers, but he also wastes list
bime with humor which is very often off point.  That might even be okay, 
but
express a view with which he disagrees, and suddenly your entire 
personality
is suspect. You are discussing things which have already been resolved, 
even
though he might be the only one who thinks so.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux


> Guido,
> Here's a thought. Since there are lots of books on the download page 
which
are not in the txt format, and since there are people willing to work on
those which you find unredeemable and others who would be
> interested in reading cleaned up versions of same, why don't you
concentrate on the better quality or at least the non txt items rather 
than
imposing your standards on the whole of BookShare, especially in the
> absence of word from the powers that be regarding this issue?
> In a note to Kelly, you wondered rhetorically what part of the words 
pride
of work people don't understand. In turn, I wonder what gives you the 
right
to grant  yourself the authority to set standards which BookShare
> itself simply has not set.  This whole problem can be avoided if you 
just
set the selection of books on step one to be viewed to something other 
than
all formats, e.g. kes or rtf.
> There is room for interpretation with respect to the "readability"
standard. But until BookShare comes out with a guideline regarding this
whole page break business that will supercede what Marissa said before the
> Christmas break, I'd say your position on the page break issue is more
like disregard of present  policy rather than pride of work.
> I sure hope the staff at BookShare reaches consensus soon on this issue
and then,  let us all live with that decision, whatever it may be.
> Mary
>
>
>



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