On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:51:22AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: >Anyway, one of the (non enforced) rules is that you don't link from >yourself to another person unless you play the 'bodily fluid' get out >rule - if you're blood relatives or seeing somebody. Instead you link >through other entities such as houses, workplaces, universities and >online cabals (such as, err, this mailing list). The reasoning behind >this is that I thought that it would be more scaleable - if I had a link >to all my friends and all my friends had a link to all my other friends >then it could get very messy, very quickly.
I think you should probably have both. I know how to get in touch with everyone who posts to this list; but I don't know, say, Shevek, from anything beyond his list posts, whereas I know Nick Cleaton because I used to work with him... and the ex-Torrington people I keep up with are no longer "ex-Torrington" in my mind but just "people I know". I suspect I'd have a description field on the link, which might be "common workplace" or "shared house"... Roger
