On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:21:27PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > I think it's not impossible that some (more) of the opponents could be > made to understand why people might disagree with them. But I can't > imagine any even theoretically possible scenarios where this would > change their opinion, so there's no point wasting the effort.
You're not trying to convince the people who've thought the issue through and have decided you're wrong; you're trying to convince the people who haven't thought it through, by providing interesting points and arguments to help them think it through. The discussions on the lists are generally not going to be with people who haven't thought things through yet, but the point of them is so that you can see all the questions and ideas that people could come up with, and provide responses to them. IMO, YMMV, obviously. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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