>From: tony cisse <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Gambians say "Thanks" to Gambia-L! - an appeal >Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:26:01 GMT > >Jaajef wa G-L, > >It has been mentioned many times on this forum that postings from the L >have >been photocopied and distributed for those not online to read. One good way >to do this is to subscribe to the digest which comes in a daily single >e-mail which can then be saved as a word document and edited, removing all >the "please subscribe me" type postings. the only problems with this are: > >the massive length of some daily postings...sometimes 130 pages. The main >cause of this is people copying the posting they are responding to in full, >this continues and you even find previous postings on the same subject >copied, this can happen several times in a day generating pages and pages >which then have to be deleted to avoid repetition (a time consuming >process),normally I find that a single days worth of postings can be >editied >down to between 12-20 pages. It would be helpful if prolific writers could >bear this in mind, as I'm sure that those in the Gambia, where paper and >online time is more expensive would benefit from stopping copying the >previous message. > >the second point (and maybe Momodou Camara can advise) is removal of codes >in the text, postings from some people, notably Amadou Kabir, but others >too, comes out with codes in the text...is there something that can be done >about this, as unless they are removed they make very difficult reading. > >But despite these problems, for photocopying purposes, the digest form of >subscription remains one of the best ways of reproducing the range of >debate >that exists. > >Yeenduleen ak jaama > >Tony > > > > >>From: Ebrima Ceesay <[log in to unmask]> >>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list >><[log in to unmask]> >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Gambians say "Thanks" to Gambia-L! >>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:31:48 GMT >> > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------