The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Waylen Gumbal]

Sherman Pendley wrote:
> kodifik at eurogaran.com writes:
> >
> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
> >
> > I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit)
> > but posing an interesting matter of discussion.
>
> It might be interesting in the abstract, but any such discussion, when
> cross-posted to multiple language groups on usenet, will inevitably
> devolve into a flamewar as proponents of the various languages argue
> about which language better expresses the ideas being talked about.
> It's like a law of usenet or something.
>
> If Xah wanted an interesting discussion, he could have posted this to
> one language-neutral group such as comp.programming. He doesn't want
> that - he wants the multi-group flamefest.

Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming 
as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. 
This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross 
posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such 
"flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to 
skipping over the topic that they so dislike.

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wg