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- Subject: Re: To keep the r.m.s rename is _not_ elitist (was Re: *BAD*...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210434.831@metrosoft.com>
- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:04:34 GMT
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- References: <1ec7ifINNn14@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU>
- Organization: Metrosoft
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- In article <1ec7ifINNn14@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John
- Stanley) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov13.081117.960@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van
- Huizen) writes:
- > >You act as if titles are inconsequential. They aren't. People don't have
- > >an unlimited amount of time to read things. They decide often what to read
- > >based on titles. Titles like "How To Create A New Usenet Newsgroup" hardly
- > >indicate that to know how to vote you must read it.
- >
- > Well, maybe that's because you don't need to read it to know how to
- > vote? The instructions on how to vote are posted in every CFV.
- >
-
- This is a circular argument. What was being discussed is how to obtain enough
- knowledge to recognize an RFD or CFV and understand its importance.
-
- > Anyone who saw the title of the document you mention should be able to
- > figure out that there is a process for newsgroup creation, which pretty
- > well shoots down the idea that people who read n.a.n wouldn't know that
- > there was a process.
-
- The specific problems related to your assertion have been dealt with in other
- posts. I'm not going to recapitulate them. If you don't support the overall
- position that there are things that can be done to make documentation and
- education better, fine. There are people that do and work is being done in that
- area. Time will tell if there is enough support for actually implementing the
- changes once they are created. I hope that there is. I'm not terribly
- interested in arguing points that have been raised and answered merely for the
- sake of debate. If you are truly interested in this issue for the issue itself,
- I suggest that you re-read the related posts. If you have a new point to
- discuss, by all means bring it up.
-
- There are more constructive things that we can both be doing with our time.
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