On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:05:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A reminder that the period for public input to the US-FDA on GE
> Foods ENDS TOMORROW ........ May 3rd, 2001.

Thanks.  I sent my input on Tuesday or Wednesday, IIRC.  (Sorry I
didn't get to send this to the announcements list in time...  At least
it has been posted on the website for a while, and there have been
quite a few new visitors lately ;-)

By the way, it's redundant to send things to both the friends list and
the announce list, since everyone on the friends list is automatically
subscribed to the announce list, (although I think this might need to
be explained on the MailingLists page).  This time it was helpful to
send it to the friends list, since I wasn't available to approve it
for delivery to the announcements list in time.  Hmmm.

> If you haven't already, you can quickly send in your input by
> following the links provided at:
> 
> http://buyorganic.org/live?US-FDA%20on%20GE%20Foods

Notice the ugly URLs generated when putting spaces in page names.  As
far as I know the original Portland Patterns Repository Wiki doesn't
allow spaces in page names at all, and I would like to disable the
feature in this copy of PhpWiki at some point, because it can also
mess up the consistency of reliability of internal links.

Before then, I hope to re-factor all pages on our site to use
WikiStyleNames.  For example, [Environment] will be changed to
EnviornmentNews, and [Recipes] will become RecipeBox or something, and
the above page will be GeneticallyEngineeredFoods, or similar...

> Though less urgent I might as well take the opportunity to let
> everyone know that I've added links on the [Environment] page, to
> the Hunger, Rainforest, LandMine, and Child Survival Sites.  People
> can make daily donations to good causes through corporate
> sponsorship.

This is interesting.  I haven't tried it yet, but will soon.  You
might want to use the [Link Name | http://URL] format when posting
external links, because it's more concise, readable, and bandwidth
efficient than a long URL linked to itself.  (I'll help re-factor some
of these when I get a chance ;-)

Thanks for all your help on the wiki pages John!
Remember to sign your messages so people know who you are :)

Thanks,
-jeb

-- 
Jeb Bateman...
http://jeb.ocha.net

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