Chris S. Mottram@ECCI
12/28/98 12:32 PM
I started cutting and pasting emails by topic from both the Alpine and
Tiger list about a month ago. I am just putting them in a MS Word document
with bold section titles. I hope to be able to do a "find" to get to the
section that I need. I also made sure to get the address of the author in
case I ever decide to give it to others (give credit where credit is due
like CAT shop manual and TEAE sunbeam survivor). I intend to just use it
myself by printing it and putting in my shop manual along with the CAT shop
notes. All that being said, it is a bit of work to sift through the banter
on the lists. Don't get me wrong, I love the banter. Without it the list
would be pretty boring. I have not edited any of what I pasted into my
master document. Lots of threads have portions of previous posts copied in
them and/or reference several posts. To make a document useful to the
masses would require much editing. I also have no way of verifying the
validity of the content. I use this rule - If it makes sense to me and it
relates to some technical point that I may use one day with my Alpine or
Tiger, I copy it to the document. Work has been slow for the last month so
I hade time to do this. Some months I can't even read all the mail. You
could probably create a really nice E-Beam tech tips manual with a month of
work and the list archives. The only down side would be giving credit. I
am sure much of the tips we pass back and forth come from some other
source.
Chris
Is anyone being conscientious enough to compile the Tiger news group
tech tips similar to how CAT compiled the Shop Notes and TE/AE did the
Sunbeam Survivor?
It occurs to me almost each time I log on that we?re getting probably
ten times the input on tech tips that we got through club newsletters.
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