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On Friday 05 May 2006 12:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > (snip) |
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> > |
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> > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even |
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> > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, |
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> > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and |
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> > will be found? |
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> In that case you should stop using GNU/OSS software, as you have no way |
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> of knowing every piece of code using your brains.. Have you ever audited |
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> kernel before updating? No.. But still you update.. Why? Because you |
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> trust that someone will point some malicious code, if any, before it |
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> comes to your machine.. Likewise, if someone reads the article and he |
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> sees some inconsistency, he'll in all likelihood correct it (just in |
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> wiki's, not entirely possible in "Reliable Articles By Experts").. |
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> Just as an example, compare Wikipedia spelling accuracy to other sources, |
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> you'll find that Wikipedia is far better.. When thousands of people are |
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> editing a article there will always be some odd person who will post |
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> misinformation, but how many people will correct it? Almost everyone who |
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> points that misinformation.. |
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Got to agree there. Ever posted something in a NG that wasn't quite correct? |
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How quickly those who know better jump in.... |
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Peter |
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