- From: Harold A. Driscoll <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 20:03:31 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: "Gary Alderman (Home Address)" <g_alderman@email.com>, "'W3C Validator'" <www-validator@w3.org>
At 12:41 06-10-99 , Kynn Bartlett wrote: >At 01:12 PM 10/06/1999 -0400, Gary Alderman wrote: >>PLEASE !!! take this foolishness to private e-mail. [...] >>You guys have caused the signal-to-noise ratio of this channel >>to degrade into unusability as you argue in diminishing spirals. >I don't believe that this discussion is off-topic or inappropriate >for the list; I'm sorry that you aren't personally interested in >the topic, but please don't equate your lack of interest with a >mandate that the discussion terminate immediately. Try: signal: Discussion of The W3C Validation Service. [0] noise: anything else. Let's have signal, and a lot less noise. Once upon a time this list was focused on "The W3C Validation Service." Such would seem a noble goal to return to, and a lot less hassle for those of us who have that focused interest. Please. /Harold ============== [0] http://www.w3.org/Mail/Lists.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 'The point? The community is hardly dead. And the usual advice applies: anyone who wants more signal and less noise should generate more signal, not just complain about the noise. As I like to say, it's easy to hit the "Delete" key, but my keyboard has no "Create" key.' --Tim May, March 1997, responding to "the death of Cypherpunks" fears. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harold A. Driscoll mailto:harold@driscoll.chi.il.us #include <std/disclaimer> http://homepage.interaccess.com/~driscoll/
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