Tony,
I appreciate your effort in maintaining the list, and would hate to see it
go away. It seems to me, however, that how best to store images generated
from filmscanners fully satisfies the "issues arising from the use of"
clause in the charter, and is therefore not off topic. I agree that the
thread degenerated into less practically useful info than I had hoped to
glean from it.
Lloyd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: filmscanners: ADMIN: Play nice, or else.
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:43:37 +1100 Kevin Power
> (kevinpower@optushome.com.au) wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm with you as it sure does get bitchy at times! If it happened on a
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> > Kevin.
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