From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 17:33:38 CST
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) asked;
> In <200003091908.OAA10911@darkstar.prodigy.com> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>
> >That's just the kind of abuse I would like to prevent! We have cancel
> >and supercedes now, you propose to replace something you posted with
> >something else for every article? An irresponsible poster would retract
> >on the fly every time something was challenged, the "I didn't say that,
> >go pull the article and see" trick.
>
> Doing that kind of replacement was one of the prime reasons for inventing
> Replaces in the first place. Where were you when those discussions were
> taking place?
If an idea sounds worse after it has been considered for a while should
I not speak? I didn't have time then to consider all the ramifications
then, I have considered it now, and it seems to have a poor benefit for
the problems it could cause. No necessarily technical problems, people
problems.
I have no urge to show how clever I am to find a neat way to do
something, and I would consider this a bad idea if it had been mine
initially.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me