To: Milk who wrote (1449 ) 1/3/1998 5:42:00 AM From: D LEE Respond to of 6654
Hi Wayne. - Thank you kindly for your good thoughts! this is quite hashed but my intentions are good. please examine! My first clunkey attempt at the clearing house concept makes me realize how many times I will be looking back at your post #1429. To keep focused I appreciate being able to follow the guidance set up there! [just for fun] As you were being drafted into the halls of - the valleys and the shadows of - communicative responsibilities, I was visited by impending doom AKA indulgence in your paperwork, back searching, and importance judgments due to ordering of of our several interests: the rights of which none of us as individuals has, or really would want for that matter! I could only see the thread popping up to rescue us from this adversity in some enjoyable manner with no "disjointed power" gained, groaping for the way out. I envisioned you, Milk, dropping your mouse at some similar thought "what monster we are creating" upon your first attraction to the cabinet for a nip of the dog, to continue the party or think? of what? the "e Tu., Brutis" of coming disharmony. ahhhh, in the web we mortals weave! [end just for fun-] HI Milk. Does what follows sound right to you? My hope is that a clearing house will remain simply that, in order to make Wayne's filtering job as painless as possible allowing his energy to flow more easily to the actual communication process itself with CVIA. I hope progress on this does not force it to evolve into a web page, but rather that it's programming might be absorbed into the page which I recall is being planned by members here. Perhaps it can become part of their page, or simply a stand alone entity that is popped up on the thread every week or so, with any or several willing CVIA members e-mail links on it. In clearing house post #1444, I thought it best to concentrate on inviting new members. But, Wayne, you are so right!So please, all thread members: Enter the clearing house and email any questions we need to have answered by jack/CVIA. Make your subject:CVIA SI Member (INCLUDE THE ENTRY # where the question is found on the thread for record keeping) (members may want to divvy up the task by each re-searching different sections of the threads past entries for questions) so stake your claims to those areas on the thread by announcing your intentions beforehand! This way we can cover it all with the most efficiency. I'll do something to put the collection into a clearing house entry once in a while. I will also update the clearing house email page to show what has already been emailed. that way we will be able to scan and avoid double entrees. For this I will try to use the #s you submit, but its OK not to use them as well. It's really sounds funny to re-scan the entire thread, but this is what I think we'll want to end up with: 1) A list of the thread entry #s which are truly informative or idea provoking. 2) A single easy to read text file summery of all the important facts this thread has accumulated to date. (great for newcomers quick evaluation of CVIA) 3) A list of unanswered questions from which we can split: a) Those we can answer ourselves. b) Those we must present to CVIA. <--- (I have the urge to call this last one "Wayne's World"!) Woops! This looks like web page material in the making if it is done right from the start with some simplifying thread scanning rules. So, before we even find scanning volunteers looks like we need some "standard scanning rules" Milk! Wayne! All! - HELP!! I see now that I have been thinking out loud, and must back up. Please don't submit questions/answers from our several thread entries just yet! Rather, scrutinize this first to see how it can be done the easiest! Also, of course, do you approve of it? It looks like a few emails from 3 or 4 volunteer scanners may be all that's necessary, but only if it is done in a standard acceptable way. It looks very good to me for what we will get out of it, but, Who is the webmaker so we can find if some extra ideas for his page might benefit from a search as well!! Guess it's best to measure twice and cut once. so i'd better send all of this. Awaiting your response. Dave ps!! MILK!!! I don't think it's cause i'm tired, your websight just grabbed me - the investor way. An encouraging moment!! So "your" the html wizzard i remembered hearing about! That's a big question answered. Seeing my brother to the airport tomorrow and will be a little busy, but will be thinking. email will be nice. after all, it takes 2 mouse pads to get to the bottom of the CVIA entries even during the hollidays. Thanks Milk! Thanks again, Wayne! Dave