On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:38:42 -0000, you wrote: > This matter was aired on the list at the time, some 12 to 18 months ago, I >don't remember any request to stop transcribing, and I suggest the number of >files concerned indicates there was none. The fact that the VAST majority of the files belong to a tiny number of transcribers suggest that this isn't a widespread problem. Rather it is a few transcribers who for one reason or another departed from the correct format. >While we are on the subject of 'errors', if one legitimately finishes a file >with an unknown number of lines missing at the end with +BREAK it will >appear in glorious technicolour on the Management page. Yes, as a warning. There are certain things which whilst possibly OK are worthy of a second look, and we flag them as warnings, but accept the file. >Similarly if one follows TWYS and accurately reproduces the clerk's entry at >the foot of the page, if that is not what someone thought he should write, >it again appears in technicolour. Same again! >On a lighter note, a transcriber sent me a screen shot and the file, showing >what happened when she tried to upload. She wrote I haven't an idea what >this is all about. I hadn't either. Close examination of the file showed a >space in the Page column. It brought to mind a well known author writing in >a computer magazine, he wrote, If you are as bemused as I am over some of >the error messages in Windows, the smart thing to do is to select a few of >the words and pop them in the Google search engine and see what you get! >I rest my case. Did you ask whether we can do something about it? If we receive constructive suggestions, we can often do something about issues. Unfortunately, all we seem to get is complaints about what we do, and complaints that we haven't fixed things we didn't know about. I really wonder why I bother. -- Dave Mayall