From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 18 6: 7:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFE637B9CC for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id OAA43896; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:05:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] (eccles [194.32.164.2]) by seagoon.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26364; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:36:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <7036.963866191@localhost> References: Your message of "17 Jul 2000 21:55:29 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:36:28 +0100 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Bikesheds Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Michael Lucas , alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, >> A bikeshed discussion is ... A metabikeshed discussion, on the other hand, is one where the protagonists try to recall in minute detail both the meaning and the etymology of some arcane piece of terminology. Such terms commonly involve the pathological properties of some metaphorical object (ISTR something about fairings in the past), hence the discussion has a tendency to stray into aetiology. Metabikeshed discussions share with the bikeshed variety the property that, while entertaining, they tend to absorb rather a lot of list bandwidth for reasons already noted. Glossary anyone? -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message