[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux

  • From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:09:57 -0600

Now children, enough of this sparring.  Does any of this have anything to do
with Bookshare?  Do we want Marissa to start cracking down on these type of
discussions?




  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Kenneth A. Cross
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:36 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux


  Just another example of your concern for the customer.
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Guido Corona
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 3:16 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux



    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>
    To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    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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