Aaron Sherman said: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:52 -0500, Greg London wrote: >> So, my message has always been along the line of >> can I just play around with this idea foolishly, >> without all the reasons why it will never work? > > Not on a public list, no. You are free to ask the question, but not to > expect others to constrain themselves to your arbitrary lines of > response. It's not that people don't like you personally, it's just that > we all feel kind of put upon to be told, "don't say what you think, just > let me noodle around on this list." It's exclusionary. You have as much > a right to talk about certification's potential as someone else does to > say it's a lose.
I never excluded people. I was asking them to play a different game. And I asked those who didn't want to play, to find a different game. It isn't like it's impossible to have multiple independent conversations on an email list. When people on the list start talking about some nuance about any web programming problem, my eyes glaze over, but I don't jump in and obstruct the conversation. And I don't mind if people throw in some specific fact like "they tried it here and it didn't work". But at some point, I would generally expect everyone to present all their facts and then let the people who want to play actually play with it. But what happened was when the facts petered out, the FUD crept in. And yeah, when the FUD started flying, I asked people to knock off the fear mongering. That was the extent of my exclusionary tactics. The rest of it was simply asking the people who weren't interested in playing with certification etc to at least allow the few of us who want to play to have a conversation. I don't have to say anything when people are talking about CGI stuff. You're arguing that the email list must always boil down to the lowest common denominator, that everyone has a right to say whatever they want, whenever they want, and that I shouldn't expect any more than that. I guess I was just hoping it was better than that. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
