Re: [xsl] Opinions, please. Keep entire archive or toss old?

[bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx>]

do not toss.

after all if it were to the benefit of those that asked beginner
questions at some point in the list's history it would also be to the
detriment of those who asked smart questions or contributed smart
answers.  Not to mention that someone might be linking to some early
smart answer and so forth.

If you did drop it would these people next go after the internet
archive, not sure if they have the list archived but they might.

This is one of the worst suggestions I have heard regarding a
technical matter from a technical community in a long period of time,
and I can only assume whoever made this suggestion knows it, or it
would have been made to the list.

And that I say this, a guy who has probably asked some of the
stupidest things ever asked anywhere should cause these credit
boosting folks to reconsider IMHO.

My mouth is filling up with bile and venom at the moment, I probably
shouldn't say any more.

aaarrrrrggghhh,
 Bryan Rasmussen

On 10/12/05, Mulberry Technologies List Owner
<xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Friends --
>
> I have recently received two apparently unrelated requests to remove
> the first several years of the XSL-List archive from the server.
>
> Both were from people who seemed to be embarrassed that they had
> asked beginner questions and wanted to be known for their more
> advanced contributions. One also implied that since the practice of
> XSL has changed over the years the older postings are misleading.
>
> My personal inclination is to reject the requests, and the premise
> behind them. We all start every new technology as beginners, and
> those of us who know many things were beginners many times. That's not
> something to be embarrassed about, in my opinion. I also do not see
> that the practice of XSL has really matured that dramatically; people
> are still asking many of the questions we were discussing in 1998.
>
> But before making such a decision, I thought I'd ask the list for
> your opinions. (I would be willing to lop off the first few years
> if we really don't want them; I am not willing to edit the archive
> in any more manual or judgement-based way. I will not, for example,
> remove postings by people who don't want their names in the archive.)
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> -- Tommie
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