What you did Josef looks like a blog entry.&nbsp; It is very efficient and would be easier to read.&nbsp; Interesting Idea.<br><br><b><i>Josef Lowder &lt;joe@actionline.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> .<br>While the PLUG forum and archives are both tremendously valuable,<br>I have often wondered if there might be some way to perhaps make<br>it a little more efficient in the way messages are presented.<br><br>Many years ago (before the Internet), I hosted a BBS message board<br>for computer users that used a very simple and efficient format for<br>posting messages and I'd like to know if that simpler format might<br>work for the PLUG message exchange.<br><br>With no criticism intended for the current system, it does seem<br>to incorporate a tremendous amount of redundancy.<br><br>Just to demonstrate the difference between the current system<br>and the alternate format I'd
 like to see PLUG consider, I copied<br>all the messages from a recent PLUG message thread to one file<br>and then edited it down to eliminate all the redundancy but<br>preserve all the unique information, and put that in a second<br>file for comparison.  The before and after files can be viewed<br>at the two links listed below.<br><br>The original thread, with all of the redundant material is<br>289 lines with 1150 words, and the edited file with all the<br>redundancy removed is 46 lines and only 311 words.<br><br>See the two files at the following two links:<br><br>Before:   http://www.upquick.com/temp/plug1<br>After:    http://www.upquick.com/temp/plug2<br><br>Does this alternate approach seem feasible and worth considering?<br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail
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