On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:07:21AM +1000, Chris Collins wrote:
> Of course, if you had actually bothered to hang around and listen, you
> would have had heard the prior case (SCSI support) corrected at the
> very least. (I was online to see that one myself).
The thing is, there's a temporal quality to information in a medium
like IRC that affects the total accumulation of data. Unlike a mailing
list, where you can be relatively assured the subject will receive
updates to incorrect information, IRC has no such guarantee. One might
answer a question incorrectly, and the person who asked might say,
``great, thanks, bye!'' and immediately log off. Then, it doesn't
matter if the correction gets made. Because the data isn't accumulated
over time, the damage done by the bad data remains done. The
correction is never applied.
- Dan C.
