Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Various issues

[Rob Scott]

Although this would be good, it would probably mean
manual work for us,  because people are bound to write
something like

(insert the picture of a canoe here)

...and we cant write a perl script to interpret that. 
 One of us would have to adapt it by hand.
Although im sure we'd probably get quite a lot of
voulenteers.
And yeah we do want to be able to cater for the person
using pine at the console, so i know exactly where
you're coming from. 

--- Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote: > What i
meant is that we'd need to encourage people
> to
> submit, so yeah we'd have a web based form, an email
> capacity, and perhaps even ftp access, or whatever
> else we can put in later on. Emailing to address@hidden
> or address@hidden would be quite a good idea too :)
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> --- Mike Warren <address@hidden> wrote: > Tom
> Chance <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Ahh right, I see. Yes I suppose the resource
> could
> > gain a certain
> > > style that people might feel pressured into
> > following. That would
> > > mean we would have to try and make it as easy as
> > possible to submit
> > > work (through a simple, well explained
> interface)
> > and we'd also have
> > > to make it very clear that it is not necessary
> to
> > have a certain
> > > length or style.
> > 
> > I don't see what's wrong with submitting things
> > through simple
> > email. Everyone remotely interested in
> contributing
> > would know how to
> > send email and a few simple structure guidelines
> > would make parsing
> > extremely easy. Pictures and the like could be
> MIME
> > attachments and
> > referred to in some simple manner in the article
> > (like <attachment 0>
> > or something).
> > 
> > Parsing such a thing into XML wouldn't be too
> hard,
> > and XML tags could
> > be included if the author felt like reading about
> > and using the
> > semantic hints (like <name>mike warren</name>
> > etcetera).
> > 
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