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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: please only post the context you need
>>>>> "PS" == Phillip Shelton <shelton@usq.edu.au> writes: PS> Apologies. Dear list, To all. I am sorry that I have loaded the PS> list with un-needed traffic. No worries. PS> I am still new at deciding how much to send back to a post and if PS> I should only send to the source or cc to the list. I do not want PS> to be saying things that are wrong without giving the chance for PS> those that know more to correct me. Neither do I want to be too PS> terse. My view is that (and it's only my view as a list member, since I'm not a list moderator and have no formal association with Oasis or Norm Walsh or anyone), assuming it's not *too* long, it should be fine to send source to the list, but you only need to do that once, for follow-up parts you can either quote the section, with changes, or if it's really large post it to a website or ftp server with a URL. `diff' and `patch' are also your friend for large files. RFC 1855 was helpful for me for sorting out these issues (although I'm probably never in 100% compliance, myself ;-) ): http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt Alex -- Alex Lancaster * alexl@bigfoot.com * www.santafe.edu/~alex * +1 510 642-1233
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