Aucbvax.5033
fa.editor-p
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people
Mon Nov  9 12:46:40 1981
Comments on editor-people and digesting
>From FURUTA@WASHINGTON Mon Nov  9 12:13:16 1981
I'm not sure how I feel about digesting.  I think that my initial
impression is positive.  On the negative side, it makes replying to
individual messages more difficult.  On the positive side, it makes it
easier to manage the daily influx of mail and also allows some
rearrangement of messages so that the related ones are adjacent.

I wonder if it would be worth considering a slight expansion of the
mandate of editor-people to encompass high level discussions of
document production issues.  I find that the lists such as info-tex
and scribe.hackers seem to concentrate on the low level details of
their respective formatters (and of particular implementations) rather
than higher level discussions about how it is that the particular
tasks should be carried out.  Also, I find that topics such as Star's
use of icons to represent document manipulations which could be
discussed in the context of document production and editing seem to
end up being discussed in the wider context of workstation design.  I
guess I'm saying that if I had a topic to discuss concerning, for
example, document formatting, I wouldn't really know where to raise
it.  This list seems like an appropriate candidiate, however.

Rick
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