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Aucbvax.5033 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Mon Nov 9 12:46:40 1981 Comments on editor-people and digesting >From FURUTA@WASHINGTON Mon Nov 9 12:13:16 1981 I'm not sure how I feel about digesting. I think that my initial impression is positive. On the negative side, it makes replying to individual messages more difficult. On the positive side, it makes it easier to manage the daily influx of mail and also allows some rearrangement of messages so that the related ones are adjacent.

I wonder if it would be worth considering a slight expansion of the mandate of editor-people to encompass high level discussions of document production issues. I find that the lists such as info-tex and scribe.hackers seem to concentrate on the low level details of their respective formatters (and of particular implementations) rather than higher level discussions about how it is that the particular tasks should be carried out. Also, I find that topics such as Star's use of icons to represent document manipulations which could be discussed in the context of document production and editing seem to end up being discussed in the wider context of workstation design. I guess I'm saying that if I had a topic to discuss concerning, for example, document formatting, I wouldn't really know where to raise it. This list seems like an appropriate candidiate, however.

Rick -------

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