Dear helpers-of-the-flummoxed,
I want to read this paper, thrice over.
I was disappointed to see that the attachment was scrubbed.
In one of my fits to remake the world to my liking, I formed a thought to suggest that scrubbed attachments be put somewhere to be downloaded at will. When I approached that task I noticed the several lines below the scrubbed message. This pleased me a great deal. Not only had someone else had such a thought, they had built it in to the open source mailing list system itself. Wonderful!
Just clicking on the URL did something which stole my computer for quite a long while. How do I avoid that? It really annoys me for every Firefox download initiation.
But something was downloaded.
It was not the PDF I had hoped for but something called WYSIwikiTakashiYoshikiScott.obj which looked promising. I boldly tried to open it, on my Macintosh Desktop but then it asks me what application to use to open it. I dunno. Perhaps Mailman could be encouraged to point as well to a fuller explanation of how to retrieve such attachments.
Help!
Could Mailman also be induced to suggest a FAQ or two to relieve the list from the more boring of these requests for the most basic assistance? For example, is there a better resource than Google for finding tutorial material for Etoys or Squeak? (I do tend to escalate every minor difficulty I encounter into a project to save the world.)
This whole thing was provoked by:
Yes, it is much too early to talk about the new architecture (we are still thinking). However, it will be along the lines (but quite a bit further) of the WYSIwiki that we did as an experiment last year (and is written up in an excellent paper by Takashi Yamamiya, Yoshiki Ohshima, and Scott Wallace that was just presented at C5 in Kyoto.
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