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On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: |
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> Oh dear. "slight delay" in an email list forum? That's like saying |
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> "you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to |
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> wait 30 seconds before you can say anything" In effect you reduce that |
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> person to an on-looker who can throw in the occassional comment. The |
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> comments themselves are reduced in their relevance or impact because by |
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> the time they are heard, the conversation has moved on. |
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On a mailing list? |
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We're not talking IRC here. We're talking mailing lists. |
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I can take a nap, a full 8 hour sleep, or many times even take the |
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WEEKEND OFF FROM GENTOO and still manage to come back and give useful |
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input. Email isn't exactly instant and nobody who runs a mail server |
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will even pretend that it is. Adding a, say, 3 hour delay between |
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posting and the timeout, doesn't seem to me like it would affect much of |
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anything. After all, I managed to not touch my email since Friday and I |
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am still managing to participate in this conversation. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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