From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:20:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050524212015.GA18538@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050524210721.GA2250@xware.cx>
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:07:21AM +1000, Chris Collins wrote:
> Of course, if you had actually bothered to hang around and listen, you
> would have had heard the prior case (SCSI support) corrected at the
> very least. (I was online to see that one myself).
The thing is, there's a temporal quality to information in a medium
like IRC that affects the total accumulation of data. Unlike a mailing
list, where you can be relatively assured the subject will receive
updates to incorrect information, IRC has no such guarantee. One might
answer a question incorrectly, and the person who asked might say,
``great, thanks, bye!'' and immediately log off. Then, it doesn't
matter if the correction gets made. Because the data isn't accumulated
over time, the damage done by the bad data remains done. The
correction is never applied.
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-24 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-23 11:27 Russ Cox
2005-05-23 12:18 ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-23 17:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-23 17:46 ` Rob Pike
2005-05-23 18:43 ` Tim Newsham
2005-05-24 4:41 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-23 12:22 ` Uriel
2005-05-23 15:55 ` jmk
2005-05-24 0:54 ` Country Joe
2005-05-23 23:33 ` Chris Collins
2005-05-23 23:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-24 0:03 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-05-24 0:12 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-24 4:29 ` Tim Newsham
2005-05-24 15:19 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-24 16:39 ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-24 16:43 ` William Josephson
2005-05-24 17:08 ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-26 4:02 ` McLone
2005-06-19 11:41 ` Vester Thacker
2005-06-19 11:43 ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-24 21:07 ` Chris Collins
2005-05-24 21:18 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-25 16:42 ` David Leimbach
2005-05-25 16:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-26 9:17 ` Abhey Shah
2005-05-24 21:20 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2005-05-24 21:31 ` Jack Johnson
2005-05-24 21:54 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-05-26 4:04 ` McLone
2005-05-26 4:19 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-05-26 4:29 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-24 4:46 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-24 5:29 ` Lucio De Re
2005-05-24 0:14 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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