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rcurl
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Why Books?
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May 6 05:25 UTC 1994 |
It is apparent that there are many lovers of books among Grex users.
There are items scattered throughout many conferences that concern
books recently read (or recently written), or about special subjects
of books. This conference is to bring many interests in books into
one location, but it is not meant to detract from any ongoing
book discussions elsewhere - therefore we will gladly link to those
Items.
This Item, "Why Books?", is suggested as a place for proposing new
Items in the conference, if you would like any discussion before
entering such, or for presenting and dicussing any other aspects of
the organization of this conference.
And now, a word from our sponsor:
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't
read them.
- Mark Twain
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gerund
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response 1 of 207:
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May 6 06:12 UTC 1994 |
Well, I'm glad this conference is now a reality.
Hopefully we will get some interesting discussions going.
I will enter my 'Discoveries' item as soon as I can compose it.
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rcurl
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response 2 of 207:
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May 6 13:11 UTC 1994 |
Should we link either/or Item 70 in writing (books), or Item 8 in
arts (The Grex Book Item), here? The former was the seed for this
conference. The latter has been longer established, and has been
used primarily for people to mention and discuss books they have
read.
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gerund
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response 3 of 207:
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May 6 18:27 UTC 1994 |
Linking both would probably draw people to this conference.
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gerund
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response 4 of 207:
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May 6 18:34 UTC 1994 |
They are now linked.
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anne
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response 5 of 207:
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May 6 22:02 UTC 1994 |
Wow! This is great!! I would like to propse an item about Fantasy books,
and will gladly enter it, if people are interested.
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gerund
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response 6 of 207:
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May 6 22:10 UTC 1994 |
Enter it! Enter it!!!.
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davel
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response 7 of 207:
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May 7 00:43 UTC 1994 |
Do we need permission to enter items? So long as it's relevant, go to it.
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gerund
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response 8 of 207:
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May 7 01:51 UTC 1994 |
No, I don't think Rane meant asking for permission.
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remmers
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response 9 of 207:
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May 7 12:06 UTC 1994 |
(Aside on linking etiquette: Perhaps it was done in this case, but
normally it's a good idea to ask an item's author for permission to
link.)
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gerund
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response 10 of 207:
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May 7 19:00 UTC 1994 |
ok.
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rcurl
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response 11 of 207:
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May 7 20:05 UTC 1994 |
#0 suggested proposing new items here "if you would like any discussion".
"Permission" is not an issue. I put it this way because I have observed
that many (most) conferences would benefit by a little prior discussion
by participants of proposed new Items (except, classified!). Items
might be consolidated, or split, or referred to a different conference,
to good effect.
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gerund
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response 12 of 207:
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May 7 21:28 UTC 1994 |
Yes.
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anne
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response 13 of 207:
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May 7 22:46 UTC 1994 |
I was just seeing if there was any interest, I wouldn't want to creat an
item that no one wanted to read!
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remmers
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response 14 of 207:
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May 9 00:17 UTC 1994 |
If there's interest in discussing the issue of "acid-free paper"
issue, I'll enter an item on it. (But if anyone *else* enters
the item, they're DEAD MEAT! :)
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rcurl
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response 15 of 207:
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May 9 04:43 UTC 1994 |
Smells OK to me - I mean, acid-free paper, not DEAD MEAT.
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gerund
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response 16 of 207:
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May 9 05:37 UTC 1994 |
Well, I wouldn't eat any dead meat if it DIDN'T smell Ok to me.
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alfee
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response 17 of 207:
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May 12 02:41 UTC 1994 |
Please enter your item on acid-free paper. I'm a collector of antique books
(and many, many future antique books as well), so I'm definitely interested.
Let's have it.
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rcurl
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response 18 of 207:
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May 12 04:32 UTC 1994 |
There is a related topic of *deacidifying* books printed on non-acid-
free-paper. Might be worth bringing these together into one item.
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gidget
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response 19 of 207:
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Jun 25 16:45 UTC 1994 |
An itme on Stephen King would be great! :)
^oops!
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danr
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response 20 of 207:
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Jun 25 19:02 UTC 1994 |
Go ahead and enter one!
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gidget
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response 21 of 207:
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Jun 26 01:37 UTC 1994 |
OK. I'll get to it right now!
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bigdeal
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response 22 of 207:
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Jul 6 04:21 UTC 1994 |
How would one go about entering an item?
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rcurl
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response 23 of 207:
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Jul 6 05:39 UTC 1994 |
One enters an Item in a conference with the command enter (and
then follow the responses - it asks for the text content of the
item first, and then the title). Its a good idea, though, to first
use the command scan to look at all existing Items, to be
sure you aren't duplicating one. I try, generally, to use an existing
Item for a question or thought, but of course some questions or thoughts
are new enough to merit their own Item.
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davel
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response 24 of 207:
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Jul 12 12:19 UTC 1994 |
I'd recommend BROWSE before SCAN. BROWSE will scan through the item
headers (or display all of them, if you don't provide a scan string).
SCAN (or FIND) looks through the item texts for a scan string which
you *must* provide.
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