>From: tony cisse <[log in to unmask]>
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>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
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Gambians say "Thanks" to Gambia-L!
>>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:31:48 GMT
>>
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