[PLUG] Signal:Noise -- an Observation
Cliff Wells
cwells at commandprompt.com
Wed Jan 21 12:32:01 UTC 2004
Felix Lee wrote:
>ah, it's phrased oddly. I interpreted the last sentence as "too
>often, the answer isn't archived and should be" rather than the
>opposite.
>
>
I have a tendency to phrase things similarly which is perhaps why I
caught it. I'm not sure what that sort of phrasing would be referred to
as, but in my case at least, it's probably some sort of pretentiousness ;-)
>probably because I tend to feel not enough is public. Rich
>proposes that people can answer a question privately, and anyone
>else who wants to know can send email to ask for the answers too.
>this doesn't really work well in the general case. there are
>many reasons this can fail to get a timely answer, or any answer
>at all. it's simpler if questions and answers are both just
>automatically archived and indexed.
>
>
>
Well, although he pointedly avoided mentioning it directly, it seemed
clear to me that he's referring as much to our little flame war as
anything else, and I can certainly appreciate his position. All the
mudslinging should probably be taken offlist.
/me volunteers but demands followers.
Regards,
Cliff
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