22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
5:04 p.m.
Richard wrote:
Well, we discussed it on the list a while back (I think
I was even the
one bringing it up) and to the best of my knowledge the scans I've
been providing are up to Al's standards, since they have been
incorporated into bitsavers.
I think that the only reason Al does as much scanning as
he does, is because he is willing to take the time to do it.
I'll bet that he would be thrilled to get documents in
a format ready to drop on his site.
I even wrote up a web page with my advice on scanning
so that others
can create scans that match the same quality of bitsavers.
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/docs.html>
In general, I think its a bad idea to have everything in any community
funnel through a single person. What happens if Al (knock on wood)
should get injured and can't do scans anymore? If we adopted the
Isn't the official prediction of injury "run over by a bus"?
It is from the same standard units as a "Library of Congress",
a "Station Wagon full of tapes", a "metric buttload", and
a "Human Hair".
"well, just let Al scan everything because he
knows how to do it" and
it never gets documented on what is the best way to scan documents,
then we lose everything connected to document scanning when we lose
Al.
Its the same reason I don't really like the KB
thing -- everything is
going through one person and no matter how devoted that one person is,
they will always end up being the bottleneck for someone else.