I have no problem with that concept either. To allow both for the visitors is better than to try to force CCs to place material in the Archives. And be attacked if they don't. Debra tore me up and all of the ladies chimed in without knowing all of the facts and did not have all the facts a few months ago and I was accused of not wanting the lady to place material in the Archives, when in fact in my first email to her thanking her for sharing the material I suggested she contact Debra, the project mgr. for the Obits project, the project mgr for the tombstone project and also told her there was a mail list especially for obits but the ones that I hosted were not due to the fact a lot of us subscribed to a lot of mail lists...it was said that I told the lady there would be copyright problems that was not true I told her it would be wise to check with the Newspaper to learn who had sent the obit to the newspaper, the family members, the funeral home. As any one of those could have the actual copyrights and it is wise to find out who and then contact them before posting the material to the WWW. As I also stated I did not allow material to be posted about living persons or recent obits and such to the lists...everything was twisted around to serve what Debra wanted to make me an example for all those CCs who are list moms that she has free will with out mail lists..she got back at any of you who had told her not to post to the lists...by using me as a scape goat.. That hurt very bad that a group of you were so quick to judge without having all the facts and taking Debra's word for all of it when she was being self serving for the reasons I just stated. After setting up about ten of the Mail Lists for the GA Counties and then when I adopted out a county turning over the mail list to the new CC of the GAGenWeb County I had never, never had to unsub anyone ever and it was not an easy decision and I sent numerous emails to the lady which she never acknowledged..the only one she acknowledged was the one/s posted to this list and every ga mail list the lady belongs to...where then those subscribers started to attack my character without knowing all the facts...I watched them tear me apart ...During that time those attacks were going on I shed a lot of tears and did lose some sleep...as I did not deserve what was being done..So that is just one experience with an Archivist .....and it was not pleasant .Gloria ----- Original Message ----- From: "mannannan" <mannannan@maclyr.com> To: <GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Plain text vs. HTML > Dawn has raised a very good and very valid point. Thank you. Well said. > > Richard > > > > On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:27:24 -0500, Dawn Watson wrote > > There is one argument that I've never heard anyone mention when > > debating the place of the Archives within the GAGenWeb Project as a > > whole, and that is the advantages of having material presented in > > plain text, as opposed to material presented in HTML (particularly > > if using tables and frames). There are certain browsers that still > > cannot read tables and frames correctly. Most county sites use both > > to format almost every record (I am just as guilty as anyone else). > > > > We tend to forget that there are certain segments of the population > > who cannot access our sites because of these problems. I'm not just > > talking about people with slow or outdated browsers. From what I can > > tell, the computer programs used by the blind to read web sites have > > a hard time reading tables. Of course, this may have changed in the > > past few years as technology evolves to meet the need. Still, this > > is a valid point...county web sites are often complicated and > > graphically challenging, making them hard for some people to > > navigate through. > > > > My solution to these problems was to streamline my pages, making > > them as simple as possible, AND to place text versions of HTML > > documents in the Archives. I don't feel like it's a waste of space. > > Rather, it provides an alternate method of viewing the material for > > those who cannot (or prefer not to) read material in table-and-frame > > form. > > > > Sincerely, > > Dawn Watson > > CC/Rabun Co., GAGenWeb > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > > Confused about Copyrights??? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights > > at: http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html > > > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Do you have a suggestion to include in our taglines? If so, please write > GAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com >