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From: alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Alan Roberts)
Subject: David Bourguin's Colour FAQ
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I have been talking to David Bourguin recently about his FAQ and those
produced by Adrian Ford, Charles Poynton and myself. The latest message
from him came yesterday but I cannot reply to it because his e-mail
address bounces. Charles reports the same problem.

I therefore report the conversation here in the hope that he will read it.
Sorry to take up your bandwidth on this, I'll be brief.

He was talking of errors in Charles' FAQ, which I had denied. Here is his
response:

>Hello Alan!
>
>Just to give you an example, take item 35 from Poynton and check out how he
>compute L* (200 instead of 500). I can't say as you that there're no errors
>in his doc... Sorry.
>;-)
>
>Regards,
>

To which I give the following reply:

There are far fewer errors than in yours. Read any of the books in your list
of titles and you will find out just how many errors still remain in yours.
Richard and I spent a lot of time trying to tell you this, and trying to
correct some of your more glaringly major erros, but eventually we had to give
up because we have more important things to do. It took much less time to
write our documents than we had already spent trying to get you to realise
that you are not an expert in colorimetry.

I'm sorry if that offends you, but you cannot set yourself up as an expert
unless you really are one. Now if you want any assistance with colorimetric
problems then you can always come back to us for help, but we really cannot
get involved in trying to correct your documents, that is far too time
consuming.

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