Subject: Re: Jungholz Treaty translation - all of it<br/>
Date: Oct 09, 2001 @ 09:08<br/>
Author: Martin Pratt (&quot;Martin Pratt&quot; &lt;m.a.pratt@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1795381744">While I also appreciate Bernhard&#39;s efforts in translating the treaty,<br/>
surely it would have been more appropriate to make the text available as<br/>
a file on the list website rather than distribute it directly to over<br/>
100 people, only a handful of whom are likely to make use of it. It is<br/>
even more annoying to then see the entire text of the treaty appended to<br/>
a reply to Bernhard&#39;s posting - especially when that reply makes no<br/>
direct reference to the text.<br/>
<br/>
The Yahoo! Groups service has a very user-friendly set of tools for<br/>
uploading and retrieving files and for searching archived<br/>
correspondence - and the photo album tool is terrific. With these tools<br/>
at our disposal there is really no excuse for distributing messages with<br/>
file attachments, and little reason to send lengthy messages or to<br/>
include anything other than the most relevant extracts of previous<br/>
correspondence in our replies.<br/>
<br/>
In the world of 50 gigabyte hard disks etc, these complaints may seem<br/>
anachronistic but we should remember that not everyone has unlimited<br/>
disk space and some of us have to pay for the time involved in<br/>
downloading long messages and file attachments. Moreover, even if we<br/>
have the technology, I&#39;m sure we all appreciate anything that reduces<br/>
the information overload that we face on a daily basis. Please think<br/>
before you post, and make use of the tools that are available to us.<br/>
<br/>
Thanks,<br/>
<br/>
m a r t i n</div>