On 10/10/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > m ike wrote: > > > The basis is the camel's nose. Once you let the nose into the tent, the > > > rest of the camel is soon to follow and pretty soon your archive is > > > going to be meaningless. > > > > That statement makes me laugh so hard, that it is hard to believe you > > were not being sarcastic. You really believe that just because some > > people do something, that everyone will? Do you really mean > > meaningless? > > Yes. I do. And it need not be _everyone_ for it to turn useless. > > Person A: ``Can you remove that message? I did not mean to send that to > the list.'' > Operator: ``No. We don't do that.'' > Person A: ``But I was insulting someone, and seeing that is a constant > reminder, and a potential employer might run across it'' > Operator: ``Oh, you make a good argument. Let me remove it.'' > > Person B: ``Could you remove this message from the archive?'' > Operator: ``No. We don't do that'' > Person B: ``You did it for Person A. Why the favouritism'' > Operator: ``Damn. You got me there. I'll remove it.'' > > Person C: ``Can you remove this message? It contains wrong information > about a problem, and the correct information is later.'' > Operator: ``No. We don't do that.'' > Person C: ``Why not? You did it for Person A and Person B. Besides, the > correct information is still in the archive.'' > Operator: ``Fine. I'll remove it.'' > > Person D: ``Hi. Can you remove this message? It is no longer topical, > and refers to a product that is no longer supported or even made by > the vendor.'' > Operator: ``No. We don't do that.'' > Person D: ``You have done it at least three times in the past, once for > Person A, once for Person B, and once for Person C. You cannot tell me > that you do not have a policy for removing messages.'' > Operator: ''Fine. I'll remove it.'' > > > Wow. That is one useless archive. We have one insulting message removed > (which could be made an argument for), one presumably innocuous message > removed, a message with technical merit albeit wrong information, and > one with presumably correct yet outdated information removed. > > Let's hope that I never have a need to research that old product.
laughing even harder now! still unable to believe that you really believe yourself. Best, Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
