Re: periodicity

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> writes:

> "Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think this would be a bad idea. A hundred new messages
> > a day is perfectly manageable if you have a decent news
> > reader that tracks threads. Mostly the subjects of threads
> > are clear enough, I find I only look at about one third
> > of all the threads. A thread like "future of Ada" has lots
> > of posts, but if you are not interested in advocacy posts
> > (I am not), you just skip the whole thread. THat's near
> > enough equivalent to having a separate advocacy subgroup.
> 
> Ah, yes, the old "I've got great technology, so the devil take the
> hindmost" argument.

In this case "great technology" consists of Gnu Emacs or Netscape
Mozilla, both free downloads that run on any reasonable computer (I
include 5 year old Pentiums running Win95 in my definition of
"reasonable").

> Of course, if one were trying to evangelize some issue near and dear
> to one, say, the wide dissemination of a programming language, to
> someplace where the technology isn't the most modern, say, the third
> world, then a willingness to believe that the world is not
> restricted to just what you see on your desktop might be a wiser
> approach.

If they can't run Netscape, they can't run Ada. So I think that's ok!

> <snip>
> 
> Let's leave this discussion, if any, to others.

Please follow your own advice!

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-- Stephe