Re: FLAME: Just make the damn keynote available, please!

["Rick Quatro" <frameexpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Fellas,

Your responses are entirely wrong. They should go something like this:

"Thank you, Brad, for making Dr. Warnock's keynote available for free. I was
expecting to have to pay for a tape of the speech. And, thank you for
getting Dr. Warnock for the Conference; that was a major accomplishment
itself. Your contribution to the FrameMaker user community had been
substantial, and is greatly appreciated. Your method for making the speech
available was very reasonable."

Sincerely,

Rick Quatro

> Open Flame to Brad:
>
> > We've finished transcribing Dr. Warnock's keynote from the 1999
FrameUsers
> > Conference.  It's now online in PDF format.  The PDF is for personal
> online
> > viewing and reading.  Please do not redistribute this in any form.  You
> can
> > download it:
> >
> > http://www.FrameUsers.com
>
> I second Michael Richard's complaint as it is a non-trivial exercise to
> configure Netscape Communicator 4.7 or Internet Explorer 4.5 to NOT use
the
> plug-in for just ONE document and then restore the original configuration,
> tied as this is into the Windows file extension mappings and the MIME
> mappings tables.  This goes beyond merely specifying 'helpers'.
>
> When I want to bypass the automatic display of PDF documents within the
> browser, I right-click on the link and select Save Link As.  But with your
> dinky little registration dialogue with CGI script behind it, you've taken
> away this option.  I for one won't be avoidably upsetting the carefully
> honed and finely balanced configuration of my delicate and temperamental
> Windows environment, the world's first virus for which people actually pay
> money, just to read one document.  Instead, I'm just going to sit here in
> the musty gloom of my closet, fantasizing the paranoid possibilities that
> the keynote address is being suppressed in order to conceal the impending
> Martian invasion, and the subsequent rape of our livestock, slaughtering
of
> our homes, and the rustling of our wives, husbands, and children.
>
> So just abandon the uptightedness, remove the printing lock, and make the
> damn thing AVAILABLE!!  Since John Warnock made his speech in front of a
> couple of hundred people in a public forum (no doubt with a  couple of
> planted Microsoft and Quark spies), it's hardly a secret, or subject to
> commercial confidentiality.  And as Warnock's intention was to reassure
the
> FrameMaker community of the continued life of our favourite product, one
> imagines that he would want it disseminated as widely as possible within
> that community.
>
> As it is, this kind of behaviour is only fuelling the suspicion and
distrust
> it is meant to dispel.  Over to you.
>
> [FrameMaker 5.5.3, Windows 98, HP OmniBook 2100]
>
> Regards,
> Hedley Finger
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