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In article <sal8.277.727486281@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>I was thinking about doing monthly releases in straight ascii format, 
>distributed to CI$, hobbes, and uuencoded on comp.binaries.os2. It would 
>have to be a labor of love, with the incentives for writing articles being: 
>retaining your own copyright and reprint rights; seeing your name in lights; 
>and helping OS/2 move into a market dominating position.
>
 [etc]
>So? What do you think? Anyone willing to contribute? I would be willing to 
>collect articles, edit into a fairly coherent thing, and distribute - _if_ I 
>can get articles. :)

This is a GREAT idea. Unfortunately I do not have the expertise (yet!!)
to usefully contribute, but I would be an eager reader. This is a
perfect opportunity to show the Unix bods that they don't have a monopoly
on "esprit de corps" ;-) 

Doing the initial release in ASCII makes sense (faster to publish, easier
& more flexible distribution, can read like a magazine etc), but
in practice I think it would prove to be a sub-optimal general reference
work; a small investment in ensuring that the "body of knowledge" 
accumulated remains _accessible_ and _useable_ will I'm sure pay off
a hundredfold in the future. i.e. I'm talking about indexing (yuk!). 

One way of organising the sum of knowledge would
be to take each issue after it is "published", and accumulate all
of the non-time-sensitive material in a suitably organised INF file.
While I may not be able to contribute much in terms of content to
the newsletter, I would be willing to donate my time to produce and
manage the INF reference work.

Regards,
PaulG
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