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From: hal@NISC.SRI.COM (Hal Huntley)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: long postings
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Date: 19 Apr 91 03:08:07 GMT
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Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 15032

In issue 1948 of Handicap Digest Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org
says:

>A suggestion.  Why not upload your files to Emerald Isle in an archive
>format, then post a message here in SilentTalk giving the file name
>and a BRIEF description of the content?  This way anyone who is
>interested can Freq them and you will not be creating problems for
>all others.

As an Internet user, the only way that I can get the view points of
James Womack and others who contribute to the Fidonet echos is through
the Handicap Digest. The longer articles like James sent  are interesting
and I would like to see more of the research that he might contribute.

I can understand the need to be brief in some forums, but archiving
the longer things to a place that I won't be able to gain access
easily will mean that I won't be able see the information. Having it
come across via email is very convenient and means reading things that
I would probably not go out of my way to get otherwise. (That is an
admittedly "lazy" thing, but given the busy schedule of life, it is
the truth.) By reading the Digest I am sensitized to issues that I
would not be otherwise.

My request is that however the longer postings will be handled on the
Fidonet echos the Handicap Digest continue to get them and distribute 
them as before.

Hal Huntley
SRI International
Telephone: (415) 859-2236 v/tdd
Internet: hal@nisc.sri.com