Re: Formatting of articles

[Alex Morega <alex@grep.ro>]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 20:50 , Andre Felipe Machado wrote:

> Sure, there are special ways to write and format longer e- 
> newsletters to
> retain subscribers and it is not an easy task.
> Given the span of subjects of DPN, only a few subscribers are expected
> to read entire letter. Time is precious. But all must find selected  
> info
> at the text.
I think one paragraph is about right for a news item: even if you're  
not particularly interested in the subject you might want to read it  
anyway. For more information there should be links to in-depth articles.

> The html version could have a topic live index.
> The txt version could have something like this (for past issue):
>
> This issue topics:
> * New Debian Project Leader elected
> * Surveying the Debian community
> * Release Update
> * Debian to participate again in Google's Summer of Code
> * Scientific study about Debian Project governance and social
> organization
> * Debian makes progress regarding reliability
> * Call for contributions on Debian development infrastructure
> * Debian feature requests wanted
> * Debian GNU/Linux FAQ to be improved with Lenny
> * Debian Lenny to be shipped with qmail and djbdns in main
> * Planet Debian as mailing list?
> * Co-operative Breathes New Life into Old Machines with Debian
> * Debian Women Project
> * status of Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux) support in Debian
> * New secondary Debian Account Manager (DAM) to handle workload.
> * Groupware solution in Debian / not yet in Debian.
>
>
> Please, continue to help us improve and make the DPN next edition,
> including yourself more news too.

From my point of view that's not very friendly, because it's just  
throwing headlines at me. I'd much rather have a short paragraph under  
the headline, but perhaps I'm in a minority here.

Regards,
-- Alex