--On Sunday, May 19, 2002 10:19 PM -0400 John R Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Call me crotchety, but I'm getting kind of tired of people positing vast > technical edifices and then waving away the reality that they're > unbuildable, and even if built would be uninhabitable...
In this case I will call John crotchety, because he is being uncollegial and unconstructive. There is, or ought to be, a difference between healthy skepticism and a closed mind; or between good-humored, informed rebuttal and snide, reflexive swatting away. A forum like this one brings together some of the better minds on the Net, and it actually is possible that useful ideas could be germinated here. I wish that John would encourage such a possibility instead of trying to shout it down.
