Discussions and developing

[Roman Suzi]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Nick Perkins wrote:

>The newsgroup is a bit like an evolving ecosystem.  A certain balance is
>achieved by the fact that really dumb questions generate fewer and shorter
>responses, while really interesting ones generate more and longer responses.
>In turn, the level of response may influence whether (and how often) similar
>questions are asked in the future.

Certainly. I do not complain about newbies questions. I just see like lot
of energy is spent in discussions which go round and round, like
discussion about a += 1.

It's like a positional war and is very boring... I think maillist is not
right technology for this kind of discussions. Maybe Wiki is more
appropriate and productive: no need to quote, counter-arguments could be
put right after arguments without need to look thru quotings or lots of
earlier posts. Also less typing ;-)

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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