Subject: Guide Entry not User Page Posted Dec 6, 1999 by Smiley Ben		Post: 1

This is fantastic - well done!

But could you please make this a guide entry, rather than putting it on your user page - that way we won't have info about the guide entries you've written, or journal space etc.

That is, unless you want those things, and that's deliberate?

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Subject: Guide Entry not User Page Posted Dec 6, 1999 by Hypoman This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 2

Hey Smiley (I used to have THAT nickname, too, if you can believe it!)!

It is deliberate, and although I didn't make the decision I can see a couple of reasons.

One, itr's easier to see what people have contributed this way, and there's also more spaces for them to do it in. Two, it's MUCH easier to update! The other thing is that keeping the fora operating around an ever-changing article helps to keep them alive. It also means that we don't create a whole lot of 'Guide entries that need to be updated every week, with attendant angst and dependence on the services of people like Mark and Anna. The diary we can just use to talk to each other - sort of like the editorial bulletin board, if you like.

Any of that make sense?

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Subject: Guide Entry not User Page Posted Dec 7, 1999 by vegiman This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 3

Hi Smiley Ben - Good of you to drop in.

Your suggestion is noted and Jim Lynn agrees with you - His reasoning is that a User Page takes up more server time and is slower to update.
Hypoman
I could not have put it better myself.

I Posted the last 5 journal entries at the last minute and was planning to change them every week to become part of the POST where readers could join in.

I will be conveying Jim Lynns message to other POST researchers soon.
Thanks for your views
vegimanPR

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