creaking back into the swing of things

Cindy C. cindysphynx at comcast.net
Tue Oct 15 19:53:08 UTC 2002


Kimberly:

>So I just wanted to stop in and say 
> hi, and if somebody can give me a little nudge in the right 
>direction about message blocks and what they need done to them and 
>such, I'll get right on it!  Or, more accurately, I'll get on it 
>Thursday night when I have a little time to myself.  I'm shamefully 
>behind (like possibly months) on the main list, but hopefully this 
>will help me  catch up.

Oh, cataloguing will catch you up, all right!  ;-)

Here's a quick orientation.  We're approaching the task of updating 
the FAQs in two stages.  

First, we're creating a massive catalogue of the messages to the main 
list.  We decided to start with Message 25,000 and work forward, 
although we'll try to go back and do the earlier messages as soon as 
we can.  Stage 2 will be the actual writing of new FAQs and updating 
of older ones.

Message 989 is the first message where we FAQers started to get 
ourselves organized for this latest effort, so feel free to read 
those messages.  There's also Message 1218, which lays out guidelines 
for our cataloguing.  We're all working in Excel.  Thankfully, Dicey 
has thoughtfully put together an Excel Help document, which is in the 
files section.

Once you understand Excel, the next task for you is to simply sign up 
for any message block block you want.  There's a database with 
1000-message chunks.  Sign up for anything that's not already taken.  
Be sure to upload your catalogue *frequently* as you work to guard 
against computer crashes -- there's a file where we're keeping copies 
of our work.  Have a look at any of the catalogues as models.

Mmm.  That's all I can think of.  Post your questions here, and we'll 
be happy to help you out.

And thanks for joining up, Kimberly!

Cindy 







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