] > This is also an abbreviation, actually, it's an acronym. And 'pc' is more
] > peecee and scsi is more scusi. So, they are becoming some kind of
] acronyms.
]
] Well I think it's stupid.
I agree here with Frank. Acronyms and abreviations that have become so common
like pc, scsi and basic should be treated as normal words. And not as big,
ugly, all uppercase acronyms or abbreviations.
] And I think underlined is definately used, what about URLs??? And I think if
Ugly too. Thank god for stylesheets that enable you to disable the URL
underlining!
] you really want to stress (Dutch: benadrukken) something, italic (which is
] also used for difficult English terms etc.) won't really do. And Bold looks
] ugly, so underlining **will** do (while waving my hand).
Bold is still the best way to stress something. Underlining is something that
you only use at elementary school to underline the syntactical errors that
you made...
] And the comment-construction shouldn't be *that* difficult... fairly simple
] CGI...
] I could try to make it (good chance to learn CGI)...
Comment-construction is not that simple to properly set-up. There is more to
it than just writing a simple CGI program. Besides, even if it was that
simple then I still would not want any beginners CGI on my server (if I had
one). It opens the door to any hacker. I suppose you have never heard of
buffer overflows and what you can do with those...
] No, I don't think so.
] When you release a new 'webzine', simply put every article in the right
] section of the index (ofcourse alphabetisized). It's only a matter of adding
] 1 line per article.
And what is the right section? With a GOOD index, one and the same article
can show up for many different keywords. I think that a site search engine
would be better. But to set it properly up does take time. And most probably
the license fees are also not that low...
] > I don't think a deadline REALLY helps. But ok, you may be right in this.
]
] I am sure about it.
]
] If I know there is a deadline, and the editor persues me (what definately
] should happen!) that I should finish an article before it, I certainly will
] get one ready.
I fully agree here. It is indeed very easy to think 'I will do that tomorrow'
and think it the next day again when there is no pressure. I have postponed
for example 3 years to cancel my ECI subscription simply because there was
not enough pressure to cancel it.
> > - If a lot of articles are placed on the site at the same time,
] > >readers are
] > > more likely to surf to the MCCW to read them.
] > >Fully agree.
] >
] > I don't think so. If the articles are placed one by one, the readers will
] surf
] > to the MCCW site to check if there's something new and then read if there
] is.
]
] No, really. Not a good idea.
Again, I agree with Laurens. Many people are still using dial-up connections
and therefore have a higher treshold to surf the web and visit a website on
which maybe nothing has changed. Though, if you now that there are a lot of
new articles, you simply go only for an hour or so and read all the articles.
Or you download them to the pc and read them off-line.
]
] There is an MSX forum out there, but I only check it very (very!)
] occasionally. I have better things to do than regularly check it, and as the
] time goes by it disappears between alot of other bookmarks and I forget
] about it.
I think that the msx news group (comp.sys.msx) and this mailinglist will do
fine for discussions about articles. Looking at the amount of messages in
both places I think many people check them very regularly. And having
something new to discuss about would be very beneficial. Especially to the
newsgroup in which 9 out of 10 discussions are about nothing. So that would
be a true win-win situation. For both the MCCW and these two well-known
discussion forums.
Kind regards,
Alex Wulms
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