On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:14:15AM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > If all he was proposing was a different way of weighing objects in the > DataStore (I gave his mail an honest attempt and understood nothing) then > why all the ranting and attacking (luddites etc)? Nobody has ever argued > that there is not more than one way to weigh the data, for example we have > had a long (and unresolved) argument regarding how the size of the data > should play in. > > I think the general weariness of all the whiners who go on about permanent > files with neither rhyme nor reason as to how that could possibly work is > well justified. After all, the philosophy has always been that ideally a
I think the moral of this story is that if you've got some brillient idea that has anything to do with permanent files make it *understandable* for once so we can get past the knee-jerk reaction and actually bother to read your submission. -- GCS d s+:-- a--- C++++ UL++++ P L+++ E W++ N- o K- w-- O- M V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+++ t 5 X R+ tv-- b+ DI+ D++ G e- h! r-- y-- pete at petertodd.ca http://retep.tripod.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010416/75544992/attachment.pgp>
