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

[Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Your first post is already better than mine (which for some reason I won't look
for :))

It's unfair :p

- Sylvain

Selon Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Firstly, it doesn't make all that much difference since there are copies
> elsewhere on the web:
>
> http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/
>
> But keep it. History is good.
>
> My first post is pretty embarrassing with hindsight, but it was early days:
>
> http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/199802/post60020.html
>
> After all, Paul Grosso was telling us that they didn't want to have to make
> XSL namespace-aware:
>
> http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/199802/post10020.html
>
>
> Michael Kay
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mulberry Technologies List Owner
> > [mailto:xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 12 October 2005 20:31
> > To: xsl-list
> > Subject: [xsl] Opinions, please. Keep entire archive or toss old?
> >
> > 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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