RE: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-18 Thread Sharon at Collierfam.com
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:15 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...) Can we kill this discussion? There's nothing wrong with this list

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote: So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos, computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for everything else? That strikes me as being more likely to

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Ingrid G . Storrø
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Robin Netherton wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote: So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos, computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for everything

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Susan B. Farmer
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote: So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos, computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for everything else? I don't like the idea of having topic tags.

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Monday 17 July 2006 1:53 am, Robin Netherton wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Lavolta Press wrote: So what about a system of CHAT: for chat, compliments, me-toos, computer problems, off-topic, and in short everything not a substantive message on costuming, versus no header at all for

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Lavolta Press
For what it's worth; I didn't read Fran's original suggestion as asking that every post be tagged in some way. I thought she was only recommending that we establish a small set (no more than 4, say) of common tags (such as CHAT:) that people would be encouraged to use. I apologize for not

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread AlbertCat
Can we kill this discussion? There's nothing wrong with this list. If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things? This

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-17 Thread Lavolta Press
Can we kill this discussion? There's nothing wrong with this list. If something comes up that you don't want to read, don't read it. If you accidentally read something you find to be a waste of time, well boo hoo! Who here has spent any significant amount of time reading such things?

[h-cost] The delete button...

2006-07-16 Thread Carol Kocian
Don't you people know about the DELETE button on your computer? If there is a subject you aren't interested in - delete it. I agree - this list covers diverse time periods, and there will be topics not of interest to everyone. I would like to ask (and I hope it's ok with the

Re: [h-cost] The delete button...

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
I would like to ask (and I hope it's ok with the management to do so!) that people consider whether their note is personal/private or not. We do have the ability to respond privately to a note, whether it's to offer a compliment or a concern. Brainstorming through a creative block is

Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Sunday 16 July 2006 6:27 pm, Lavolta Press wrote: [snip] I am on an extremely active list for translators from foreign languages, which has a very useful system. They require every subject line to be prefixed with one of a series of standard headers designated by the group's official

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: I think this is an excellent idea and second Fran's recommendation that we implement it on h-costume. I have seen this work extraordinarily well on exactly one list -- a list for copyeditors, who are, by definition, able to deal with

Re: Prefixes for headers? (was: Re: [h-cost] The delete button...)

2006-07-16 Thread Lavolta Press
I'm afraid I don't see such a system as easy to implement on h-cost, where we have a membership that's extremely diverse, representing people from many countries and of varying levels of ease at handling language and niggly bits of formatting. In fact many more h-costume members are native