[bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:34:05 -0500

Yes.
143 messages is more than came through on any other list.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise" <lougou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: txt page breaks redux



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



         "Kenneth A. Cross" <crossk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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