[H-GEN] raymonds missing agenda items

[Gary Curtis]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:46, Raymond Smith <raymond at humbug.org.au> wrote:
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> 2009/9/17 Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:11, James C. McPherson
>> <James.C.McPherson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> matheist76 at westnet.com.au wrote:
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>>>> Also I have issue with using just the initials to indicate which
>>>> members have proposed the agenda items. Example:  Russell
>>>> Stuart and Raymond Smith both end up as [rs]. I would think
>>>> that a far better way would be to use your full name. You could
>>>> do it this way [Raymond Smith] or add it to the end of the
>>>> agenda item like this -- Matthew Franklin. Either way works.
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>>>
>>> You could also use middle initials. That's what we do inside
>>> Sun for this sort of thing.
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>>> James C. McPherson
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>>
>> Most people will not know the middle initial of other members.
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>> I believe the defacto standard is to use the full name when it
>> is first encountered and the initials are defined at that point.
>> Thereafter, the initials are used.
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> Right. And for executive members you can just use their position.
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>> So if we refer to Russell Stuart [RS] first, then later in the text
>> we refer to Raymond Smith [RS2] we can then have an item
>> raised by RS2 and seconded by RS. It is also possible to use
>> nicknames instead of initials. e.g. Gary Curtis [Gaz].
>
> I'd prefer middle initial (RMS) to numeric, but in general I agree.

Two points. I had no clue that your middle initial was 'M', and
what do we do when the other, slightly more famous, RMS joins
HUMBUG?   :-D

Can any Humbugger fill in my middle inital   G_C ???

> Raymond

Gaz