Re: AIS: 'Bored' and the Print Index
- Subject: Re: AIS: 'Bored' and the Print Index
- From: w*
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:37:51 -0600
From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
-----Original Message-----
>From: Irisborer@aol.com
>Well Walter, maybe I'm more excited than you are. But if you read what
Ruth
>and I wrote, you'd know that this is the first step to getting all the R &
I
>information into a searchable database. This is an important first step...
>slow because of copyrights and approval requirements... but let's look at
our
>glass as half-full. We are progressing toward the dream of an electronic
>database - and at warp speed, as compared to activity up till now.
>
I am as excited about the database as you are and will be one of the
first to access it whenever it becomes available.
>The index will, of course, be in electronic form... but having it on disk
>really wouldn't save much because the value of this index will be two-fold:
>
Mention was made of fifty copies. I understood it to be in print
form; now you say the index is in electronic format. Are you talking about
an electronic index at some distant time? This is confusing.
>
>After all... imagine how cranky you folks would get if we did a half-cocked
>job
I don't think any of us are cranky...just trying to find out where
we stand with the electronic database.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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