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Subject: BASIS Feedback
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Date: 17 May 91 11:37:00 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 05-15-91 (09:17)              Number: 2189 of 2189 (Echo)
   To: DENNIS RUFFER                 Refer#: 2162
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: BASIS FEEDBACK                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> TO:  X3J14-watchers
 ->
 -> FROM:  Elizabeth D. Rather, Chair
 ->
 -> To those of you attempting to make printed copies of BASIS documents:
 -> X3J14 does not authorize any printed documents that are not a direct
 -> result of the RTF formatting information incorporated in the file.
 -> This is because there is critical technical information carried by
 -> the formatting.  For example, some paragraphs contain rationale
 -> information which is not binding.  You can only pot these because of
 -> the formatting.
 ->
 -> I confess I'm utterly baffled by someone's comment that he managed to
 -> convert and print it in "only" 5 hrs!  Is your time worth so little
 -> ($3/hr in this case, not counting 200 sheets of paper), or are you so
 -> starved for entertainment, that you'd do this in preference to simply
 -> sending a check for $15 (to the Forth Vendors Group, 111 N. Sepulveda
 -> Blvd. Suite 300, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266)?

         Bess ...

         When the original debate came up about putting BASIS online,
 (in those days before I was on the TC) I tried to explain what the
 phenomenon was that you are describing.

         Many of us have moved so deeply into the electronic office that
 it is very tedious to conduct paper correspondence, even to mail off a
 letter and a check. It is really simpler to just conduct correspondence
 online.

         Also, some of the people wrestling with the electronic BASIS are
 those living in Europe and Australia who do not want to wait for the
 mail (post) to come through.

         Really, I have found that the majority of persons one meets are
 fairly rational and have perfectly good reasons (to them) for the odd
 things they do! :-)

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