In article <002001c70e7f$3cf43020$6700a8c0 at BILLING>,
"Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> writes:
[...] I did
imply that Al has Special Experience, which some others certainly may have
as well.
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 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
"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.
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