At 08:52 PM 7/30/00 +0100, Julian and Jackie wrote:
>But the solutions have not been discussed. I know that solutions reached
>with consensus will work 90% of the time. Solutions that are imposed
>work about 15% of the time.
I'm finding myself in strong agreement with Julian in all his recent
emails on the subject. I would have strongly preferred at least a
discussion about fragmenting the list before someone just DID it.
Also, despite what you seem to think, Bill, this is NOT a new problem
on the GML. This is why the threadmarker system was incorporated into
the Charter in the first place -- although then it was more because we
had a lot of genetics intensive discussion and a lot of people weren't
interested in that. Alas, it was an idea that has never taken off on
this particular list, even though I cribbed it from a system that works
just fine for us on a newsgroup I frequent. A perfect illustration of
Julian's 90/15% statistic.
Michelle
Flutist
