Captions are readable by screen readers, so are accessible. Pictures of text are about the least accessible thing. I’d be delighted to have captions. I’d use it in most of my groups. For example, the

English compounding varies over time. Decades ago, “data base” was correct, then “data-base”, and now we use “database”. The AP Style Guide insisted on using “web site” until April 2010, when they all

I just edited an email “To” line with 28 addresses to be one address per line so I could send invitations. I probably should have done that with query-replace in Emacs, but it would be even better if

Offline, I suggested some keywords which would trigger moderation on a new topic. To pick a random possibly fatal condition, if “renal failure” was mentioned when starting a new topic, it could be aut

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With a clear example of the problem, Mark might have a solution that you haven’t thought of. Mark has seen many more problems than any of us. He’s been doing this for decades. I’ve maintained conferen

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Obviously, it is about managing specific people at specific times. But you won’t explain, so I don’t see how we can help. wunder Walter Underwood wunder@... http://observer.wunderwood.org/

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Hmm, I think it has to do with trying to solve bad human behavior with technological blocks. Myself, I’d work with the person. Calling them on the phone has worked for me. I think specific examples, w

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It might be worth talking to the folk at FastMail. They are pretty active in the mail security standards. I use them for my mail. https://www.fastmail.com/about/company.html wunder Walter Underwood wu

It would be handy to have a mygroup+moderator alias that went to moderators and owners. One of the first things I tried to do when setting up my first groups.io group was to send mail to the moderator

I see the footer in Apple Mail.app. wunder Walter Underwood wunder@... http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

On a Mac, “Paste and Match Style" is the easily remembered Shift-Option-Flower-V command. :-) To be serious, I haven’t laundered text through a text editor in a decade or so. wunder Walter Underwood w

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Tags defined by group owners kind of work, but mostly not. The same idea might be tagged with: * BSA * Boy Scouts of America * Boy Scouts * BoyScouts * boyscoutsofamerica * Scouts BSA * Scouting * Sco

I’ve worked a lot with categories in search, over twenty years. Twelve to twenty top-level categories is good. More than that doesn’t fit well on a page. Each level can also have up to twenty sub-cate

Dewey and LCC are systems for putting things in one place on a shelf. For this, we need subject headings, not a classification/shelflisting system. LCSH is the subject heading system for Library of Co

DMARC is an anti-spam system that makes rigorous checks on the domain of received email. Yahoo has set their DMARC policy to “reject”, so any mail that is suspicious is rejected instead of delivered.

I was working on a system and my tech writer kept asking me questions about the permissions. Then she came back with this lovely table of how it all worked. It made much more sense after she explained

Safari complained about the certificate. wunder Walter Underwood wunder@... http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

The red “B” for bouncing is one of the few features that is not accessible to color-blind admins. Maybe change that to an “X”? I know at least one person with monochrome vision, and those would two co

Linguistically, there are derivational and inflectional stemmers. Derivational stemmers are more aggressive and can reduce “conduction” to “conduct” and “catty” to “cat". Some even remove prefixes, so

I’ve been working in search for over twenty years and you really, really cannot get 100% specific and 100% sensitive. In search evaluation, those are called “precision” and “recall”. You are lucky to