Re: [9fans] sources down

[Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>]

There's the other side of the coin, too, just so everyone can tell I'm
cursed with seeing more than one side of situations like this: no one
can learn much from "private exchanges".  So David's freedom not to
publish a one-off ought to be weighed against the benefit that someone
may be able to build on the knowledge he or she may have picked up
from it.

But I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and I apologise for that.
At the same time, I would like to thank David: his contributions are
going mostly unrewarded, the occasional show of gratitude is probably
a good thing.

Lucio. :-)

On 12/31/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/31/18, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This “send it to you privately” ethos is a problem on this list. Why not
>> make it public?
>
> I generally agree, but in this case he was forced to spend more work
> (cleaning up, and documenting it).
> From my experience with scripts of the same length the work to write
> it is probably less than the work to clean it up and document it. And
> the task has to be done only once anyway, so not worth it (Unless we
> get the annotations).
>
>


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