The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48035   Message #719097
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
28-May-02 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: A Proposal - part 2
Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Proposal - part 2
Let's hope that it's done carefully. To be honest, I'm not sure that anybody who can't load a thread 78 messages long will be likely to be able to help much with this (given the source material that will have to be examined), but we'll see. The first "freelance" go at the format is Alice's DTStudy: Spancil Hill, which we might want to keep track of to see how it goes. My personal feeling is that she has already quoted indiscriminately from old threads (do we really need comments like I promise just to write the words of the song and cut out all the crap in future, and More in a couple of days. 'Till then, Slán.? They really don't seem relevant to the song.

This kind of irrelevant verbiage will have to be edited out at some point in any case, and it might be better not to include it in the first place, so as to save inflicting unnecessary work on somebody else in the future. What we need is a careful digest of the raw material, attributed and dated but without the attendant chat.