On 2 Apr 2008, at 16:36, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
Many thanks for your comments. We would of course be happy to create wiki pages of all of these texts if the community wishes us to do so.
I'd love to see people discussing substance... anywhere! I think editable wiki pages would help.
However, with respect to emailing out texts either as attachments or in the body of emails, since those on low-bandwidth connections have made it clear that this is a real problem for them we have refrained from taking either of these steps. We are also aware that in some areas, community members must not only live with low- bandwidth connections, but must also pay for the bandwidth that they do use.
For these reasons, it is our hope is that those of you who are fortunate enough to have broadband connections would be able to live with visiting URLs to retrieve documents, instead of insisting on increasing the bandwidth required for all participants by including the texts in the body of emails, or as attachments. Of course, if the community wishes to decide to standardise on one kind of method of transmission over another, we would be happy to accommodate those wishes.
I apologize to those on low-bandwidth connections, but I'd recommend you use a gateway to store and forward messages, rather than limiting the entire group's communications. We simply can't discuss texts effectively without sharing and editing the texts.
Agree. Pdf attachments as well as URLs should be a better way forward. Desiree --
Sadly, I haven't seen much evidence that we discuss texts or policies effectively, lately.
--Wendy
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