Questions & Observations

[Penny Linsenmayer]

Hi:

Sorry -- I'll betray my technical incompetence with some of my 
questions & thoughts:

1.  What program am I missing to be able to read Anna's file?  I
click 
on it and my browser is prompting me to save it to my hard drive 
rather than pulling it up.  I suspect (although I've not tried it) 
that if I did save it to my hard drive, I still would be without the 
program needed to read the file.  Help!

2.  I like Heidi's suggestion of one of the FAQs addressing 
"Predictions that were Made for Book 4."  We can also have one for 
"Predictions for Book 5" & so on.

3.  It sounds to me like everyone is on the same page as far as which 
posts are not going to be FAQ-necessary.  I think it's just common 
sense.  (The "Hi, I've just joined" posts are a clear example; the 
"open casket funerals" posts are similarly off-topic enough that we 
can ignore them).  I think we're looking for really big questions, 
recurring themes, etc.  

4.  Paul -- your database of Frequently Recurring Themes -- should we 
add to this or did you mean it to be a guideline for yourself?  It 
looked like you were indexing more messages than you were assigned. 
So, I was confused.  <g> 

5.  Deadlines -- well, I'm just worried that we need to get moving or 
we'll need to all take another grouping of messages.  <g>  Can we say 
a deadline for this initial work of August 25th (gives everyone a 
little more than 2 wks)?  Then, the Committee can set some
appropriate 
deadlines amongst themselves for actually creating the FAQs.  

6.  Maintenance -- Good question Neil.  Yikes.  Any suggestions?  I'm 
wondering if we should have a "FAQ Maintenance Committee."  Gads,
it's 
starting to sound like a Dilbert cartoon with all these committees.  
No, seriously, whoever wanted to could volunteer to periodically 
update 1 or more assigned FAQs.  We could rope Skimmel into updating 
the "What to Read Next" FAQ for example.  

7.  Updating the Message Archive -- Paul, I'm just thrilled that you 
did this!  I think you should update it whenever it's convenient for 
you.  Maybe every 500 messages if possible?  I don't know what's 
involved.  

8.  Yahoo/egroups Merger -- I know nothing more.  I do hope we'll get 
the best of both worlds though.    

9.  MIA -- The following volunteers are still MIA from this board -- 
Simon, Joywitch999, Diann Recla, Scrimmers.  Should we contact them
or 
assume they'll show up soon?  We also had another volunteer, and at 
the rate UberPoster & myself are going, we could probably add Sheryll 
(S_ings at yahoo.com).  <g> 

Have I raised more questions than I answered???

Penny