Gary Malet felt an urge to reveal at 2:32 AM -0500 on 1997-09-20:
> Brief Text
>
> A work that is mostly textual in nature and involves less than
> three minutes for the average user session.
> Examples include summaries, abstracts, brief
> descriptions, letters, correspondence, pamphlets, and email
> messages,
I think that there are a few problems with this type. To begin with, there
is a specific reference to Text, which implies not only a *resource type*,
but the file format as well. Secondly, I don't think length is a factor
that should define an upper level document type. I don't think, also, that
one should put e-mail under this category, since it more clearly belongs
with correspondence (which you also list under this), which cannot be
clearly defined in length (the longest letter ever was something like 200
pages, so...).
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