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From: grieggs@netcom.com (John Grieggs)
Subject: Re: Color space FAQ
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References: <graphics/colorspace-faq_789841722@rtfm.mit.edu> <EDDINS.95Jan11121240@grainger> <grieggsD29vK2.8F5@netcom.com> <D2ADp9.IG3@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 06:03:04 GMT
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In article <D2ADp9.IG3@bbc.co.uk>, Alan Roberts <alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>John Grieggs (grieggs@netcom.com) wrote:
>: In article <EDDINS.95Jan11121240@grainger>,
>: Steve Eddins <eddins@mathworks.com> wrote:
>: >   Sender: david.bourgin@ufrima.imag.fr (David Bourgin)
>: >   Keywords: Color space FAQ
>: >
>Charles Poynton, adrian Ford, and I, have compiled three documents which
>can take over the information content role if this FAQ. We tried for a
>large part of last year to get David to improve his FAQ by taking out
>the more wild errors, and rewrite the rest, but it proved far too
>onerous a task. we decided that since the entire document needed to be
>rewritten, we would rather start again. So we did.
>
I am sorry to hear it worked out that way.  Oh, well.

>Meanwhile, David went away to do his National Service and our documents
>were duly compiled and posted at ftp sites.
>
Yes, I've seen the ASCII version, and am aware of the Acrobat ones.

>Now, if you want to have documents posted here regularly in ASCII, you
>have to realise that we are talking about big documents (I mean really
>big). I can't do it because BBC does not support that sort of thing, nor
>can Charles yet (although he objects to posting in ASCII, ask him why).
>Adrian could arrange it.
>
This is Usenet.  ASCII is required for FAQs.  If it's a FAQ, it needs to
be in ASCII, else it can be in any format.  Non-ASCII documents are not
nearly as useful to the net at large.  Documents in proprietary formats
which are not universally available are especially non-useful.

I responded with more detail to another message in this thread, but
the sort answer is, the ASCII version is not too big to be a FAQ, and
there are servers that help with the posting.

>Do you want us to pursue this?
>
If and only if you want to make your information available as a Usenet FAQ.

>--
>************* Alan Roberts **************
>* BBC Research & Development Department *
>* My views, not necessarily Auntie's    *
>*    but they might be, you never know. *
>*****************************************

_john

