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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Input Solicited For Elm Docs
Summary: beginners guide, conversion guide
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Date: 3 May 89 13:09:59 GMT
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Reply-To: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
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We've begun work on two documents here, and would appreciate any or all
input available from the group.

The first should be done within two weeks.  It's a "Guide For Converting
From Elm 2.1 to 2.2".  It's some detailed suggestions for the naive users
to convert to 2.2, and a list of things that changed.  This is a rather
ephemeral document; it'll be posted here as soon as done.  Please email
me anything you've encountered in 2.2 that was a change from 2.1.  Yes,
I know 75% has already been posted here -- but I wasn't archiving it.

The second will take longer.  The working title is "The Beginner's Guide
To Electronic Mail With Elm".  It's intended for our users here at ITI,
but will be written in such a way that the serial numbers can be filed off
and it be placed in the generic Elm docs.  This is intended as a replacement
for the "Elm Users Guide".  It will be a completely new document.  The
target audience is secretaries, social science professionals, shipping
and receiving clerks, etc.  I'm aiming for a high-school freshman readability
index.  It'll be very low on theory, very high on examples.  Since we are
both an Internet and a UUCP site, we'll address both and talk about the
evils of mixed-mode addressing.  If you have any suggestions, existing
documents, etc, we'd very much like to see them.

Please send comments/email to scs@itivax.iti.org, ...!sharkey!itivax!scs.
If you're really desperate, POBox 1485, Ann Arbor, MI. 48106.

   Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
   scs@vax3.iti.org  -- or -- ...!sharkey!itivax!scs
         "Hey...you *can* get here from here!"