Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!ivax!cdsm From: cdsm@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Newsletter. Message-ID: <541@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 12 Dec 88 17:50:22 GMT References: Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 36 In article alf@sics.se (Thomas Sj|land) writes: > >I agree with ROK on the issue of publishing texts in paper form >without asking the author for permission. After all most of us are >easily reachable via the net. BTW, I think the idea of publishing >an edited copy of the net discussions is an excellent idea, but >I think I would like to consider the formulations more carefully >if I knew that they were possibly going to occur in a paper. I obviously need to apologize for my cavalier approach since both of the main sources for the first issue feel the same about it. I certainly don't want to stop people expressing their opinions on the net! But from the responses I've got people do generally seem to appreciate the column. Can I suggest an approach? In future I will send a note to everyone who's contribution may appear in the column. If I get a reply in reasonable time disagreeing with the inclusion of their contribution I won't print it. If they want to make changes then I'll try and oblige. I put it that way since I'm not sure about the implications. Personally I find the net a rather unreliable means of communications: great when it works, but messages can take weeks or get lost; why, I don't know. (I just received a message today from Germany that took 6 days). >The swedish vowel in my name transcribed oe (an 'o' with two dots >above) was heavily mishandled since it got printed as the ASCII >character with the same code, namely '|'. This one did puzzle me: I didn't know if it should have an umlaut or a slash, so decided to leave it alone. It rather underlines the discussion above. I _should_ have mailed you. Sorry. Chris Moss.