Lydia Nickerson <lydy at demesne.com> writes: > At 03:05 PM 11/27/02 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >Lydia Nickerson <lydy at demesne.com> writes: > > > > > At 11:35 AM 11/27/02 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > >books at bofh.com writes: > > > > > I also do not believe that DDB is not religious. I will offer > > > > > as inflamatory examples requests for discussions on the following > > > > > subjects by him: > > > > > > > > > > 1) List headers should have the list address set as reply-to > > > > > 2) Vi is better than Emacs > > > > > 3) Ksh is the best shell > > > > > 4) Sendmail is clearly superior to qmail > > > > > 5) HTML is necessary for effective email communications > > > > > ... > > > > > These are clearly religious issues. :) > > > > > > > >Not in the sense we're discussing. There are solid, real-world, > > > >observable, measurable, reasons for preferences among the things on > > > >those lists. > > > > > > Actually, what's going on is that you have certain immovable opinions > > > based on those observable, measurable facts, not quite the same thing. > > > >You do understand that that's a top-level nasty accusation in my > >world, right? Notice that, even in responding to the poke here in the > >list, I didn't actually claim that the evidence was overwhelming and > >only an idiot could disagree. > > > I'm, um, agnostic on the topic of the configuration of email lists, > due to vast ignorance on the topic. I have never seen anyone argue > with you about the facts of what configurations do what, but I have > certainly seen many people, some of them quite reasonable and > experienced, argue with you about what configuration to use based on > those facts, from which I draw the conclusion that one can draw more > than one conclusion from the data, depending on what the list master > prefers in terms of traffic to the list, embarrassment to the list > members, ease of use for list members, and probably lots of other > arguments I don't remember. You're making choices based on some facts > and some variables and some preferences, which looks to me an awful > lot like an opinion. I don't see why opinion should be a dirty word. > We all have them, and the more they're based on real world > observations and rational evaluations, the better off we all are. It's the word "immovable" that I'm taking issue with. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info