Greg Skinner a �crit:
>
> Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Well, I think you are exaggerating. It's part of this techno-mystique
> >surrounding the Internet, which technical people who feel insecure
> >about their social and linguistic skills are often pulling. In any
> >case, there was nothing technical in this dialogue that was so far
> >above a user like me. What I was questioning was the intentionally
> >opaque, "in-group" manner of expression, and what the purpose of
> >using such artificial language could be on this supposedly open mail
> >list. To impress others? To use the list for a private conversation?
> >Or, unwittingly, a mistaken appreciation of their audience?
>
> Hmmm ...
>
> I think you are overreacting. (Does anyone here who isn't involved in
> technical Internet work feel Dave Farber and Dave Crocker were
> "speaking in tongues?") It is possible that they have had this
> discussion before, and were just sort of playing it out. I don't see
> any harm in that.
I apologize for overreacting, and for attempting to exploit a situation for
its comic value, which has backfired on me. It's just that it's a piquing
when Internet insiders have private conversations in jargon on the IFWP list
about subjects that are interesting to me. When they do that on the IETF
list, it's to be expected. But here I'd like to feel, even if it isn't
really true, that some consideration was given to the non-technical side of
the Internet. Also, when it's someone like Dave Farber who does it, someone
who isn't a regular contributor to this list, well it sort of gets my dander
up. I've been told to bug off more or less for posting to the IETF list, and
I guess I don't see why an IETFer like Dave Farber should come onto the open
IFWP list and act like it belongs to him. Anyway, I apologize for
overreacting.
BTW, thanks for the readable translation of what it was all about.
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