-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> I find it pretty presumptious of you to assume people should provide you > with the summary.. Well, I'm sorry, but that just seems silly to me. If you're providing a link, presumably you think people might want to follow it. Otherwise, why would you bother to post it at all? It makes no sense to me that someone would provide a link, and not say a single word as to why they're providing the link, or what makes it potentially interesting. And if you're going to the trouble of posting a link, how much of your time does it waste to add a one sentence description of what you're posting? If it's not worth your time, why bother at all? IMO, you're just wasting bandwidth -- it's the equivalent of spam. Instead, you'd rather waste my time by encouraging me to follow links that are potentially meaningless to me. At best, that's no less presumptuous than my desire to have a brief description of what it is that you're linking to. I believe that this forum, and others like it, exist for the purpose of exchanging ideas and information about a subject in which its participants share a common interest. If you have an idea, tell us what it is. If you found someone else's idea, and you want to share it with the group, I believe you should tell us, at a minimum, *why* you want to share it, when you post a link to it. To do otherwise, IMO, does the community a disservice. In such a case, you're providing data, rather than information. If all you want is data, try /dev/random. It'll give you all the data you want. And it's almost as useful as a link with no information. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84USHdjdlQoHP510RAiKWAJ9Db9t42Vo/0rufEIL/ZbdnxqRKxACgkLG5 44C1pGRE3XagGxgwMHMs7Cc= =NrkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
