Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:27:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net> Cc: chat@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: (2) hey Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990813142537.27064B-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908131110020.280-100000@abalaea.ircache.net>
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Glenn Chisholm wrote: :> So everyone is supposed to lower their standards to accomodate idiots? I :> don't think so. :> : :I think that you missed my point. My point was that when the Internet is :populated with a group of people who were involved with the standards :maintenance of high standards is easy. They are extreamly unlikely to :violate their own standards. However once there are a number of people who :have little or no idea what the actual standards are some degree of :enforcement will be required. The appropriate response is to ignore them. The internet sees non-compliance as damage, and routes around it, or ignores it. I'm not sure where enforcement came into this. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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