From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Saklad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to set a web link for forwarded public notices not in plain text ascii Date: 20 Jun 2004 08:24:19 -0400 Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537059 22087 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:24:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:24:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfODE-0006FE-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOEu-00055N-88 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:25:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.help,gnu.misc.discuss Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: grapevine.lcs.mit.edu 1087734260 97769 128.30.16.13 (20 Jun 2004 12:24:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@lcs.mit.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:24:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:71713 gnu.emacs.help:123851 gnu.misc.discuss:85681 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19210 a. How might I set up a free public service with notices of Boston City Council committees public hearings that the council distributes merely by email in microsoft word format ?... Ironically, the council has been unwilling to see how to distribute public notices in plain text ascii b. Would there be something like a list server that would automatically convert my forwarded public notices in microsoft word format and make them readable on the web?... I get the microsoft word formatted notices in rmail in emacs and could forward them regularly, if necessary. c. Or would there be another way for me to forward the microsoft word formatted notices to a web link where anyone would be able to check the current and archived notices?... I could get an email address submitted on the email list that would effect forwarding of the microsoft word public notices automatically. > 1) The more you ask a user to do, the fewer of them will do it. > Bottom line: fewer people in your target mailing, even > consider coming to your event. > > 2) Instead of N people doing the conversion, it makes more sense for 1 > person to do it. The person who sent it. The person who wants the > event to be successful. This also shows respect for the many > recipients, you are choosing to make their lives easier, not harder. > And the plain ASCII text version should be the first MIME > component. As Jordan suggest, it should include useful web links, > like maps to the site. > If other versions are appended after that as other MIME > components, it matters much less. Usually a waste of Internet > bandwidth, mail spool space, CPU, etc, but whatever.