norman on Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:51:47 +0100 |
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Syndicate: using good IDEA |
Dear Syndicate just following up on Arthur Bueno's and Annick Bureaud's mail - I think it's great if there can be a bit more cross-fertilisation in this way, and indeed, if the IDEA ground-breaking sheer gut slog can be exploited via Syndicate that's also excellent because as Annick says, but I'll restate it with MUCH EMPHASIS, it's been a solo, very dedicated mission on her part for donkey's years. We all know how backward net practice has been in France, and Annick was already plugged into email here in the days when you could only get at it via the French minitel service, painfully typing on the totally inadapted keyboard of a France Telecom regulatory telephone with absolutely colossal phone bills at the end of the month... Particularly tricky when you're not getting any compensation for this labour of love in the first place. Annick wouldn't say this coz she's usually too busy trying to get on with the damn job against all odds (which in this country add up to quite a few - the famous LEAF joke again, about France being further south-east than Bulgaria in terms of net and certain types of cultural practice...), but I will coz I know how much we all owe her... she's a friend but certainly not the kind to prompt this sort of support and is probably turning bright crimson right now when she reads this... Kia Ora Sally Jane Norman 48, rue de l'Ourcq 75019 PARIS Tel (33) 1 40 38 22 12 Cell phone (33) 6 08 32 22 38 Fax (33) 1 42 09 96 07 Norman@wanadoo.fr http://uchcom.botik.ru/~norman