Re: [tlug] Open archives are bad?

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Uva,

Thanks for responding.
> It seems to me that we might be adding more noise than content without
> peer review.
I don't know exactly what you mean by "peer review", but I do know that 
this list has no better or worse a signal to noise ratio than any other 
technical mailing list that I've ever been on (and I've been on quite a 
few).

> Much of the knowledge base is time critical
There's an interesting debate to be had there about whether or not all 
information used by humans is time critical, based on the perspective of 
the people using it.

But, esoterica aside, I think the damage done by some information, years 
old, falling out of date is far outweighed by information that is maybe 
only months old being found and used.

And you never know what information may be useful later. Five years from 
now a friend of yours might give you their 7 year old machine and you 
decide to install something on it...

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Dave M G
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