Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:05:12 +0000

madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral) writes:
> >>Funny, in the discussion here, people didn't say that.<<
>
> I didnt actually say anything about what anybody said. Discussion, for me,
> means a sharing of ideas.  Perhaps, for you, it means just repeating what
> everybody else has said?

Discusion, to me, means responding to each other. If you're in a
conversation with someone, and you criticize something that hasn't
been said instead of something that was, you're holding a monologue.

In this case several people advocated program-parsable output IN
ADDITION to other forms of turn output. You criticized program
parsable output INSTEAD of other forms of turn output.

> People dont wonder that at all.  We all *know* why there are pointless
> arguments here, they are virtually always to do with *you*,

And then you shoot the messenger. Well, that doesn't matter, I'll
ignore that bit.

> >>The folks who want to write their own programs merely want the OPTION
> of getting the info in a format that can be crunched.<<
>
> Yes, thats true.

Wow! Now that's discussion.

> >>If you didn't see the world in black and white, you might notice that
> there are colors.<<
>
> If you actually read what people wrote you might notice there are ideas other
> than your own.

If I didn't read what you wrote, how did I notice you were talking
about (pdf OR ascii) instead of (pdf AND ascii)? If I didn't read what
you wrote, how did I notice the difference in what we consider a
discussion to be? I think I've represented your viewpoints rather well
in this note, which means I've actually read them.

-- g
official toser of rec.games.pbm
brits flamed, netiquette commented upon, "real ales" preferred
[ oh, but I wasn't reading so I couldn't have possibly noticed
the comment about men who prefer "real ales"... ]

References

Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:17:21 +0000

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Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:17:21 +0000