Subject: RE: [xsl] Opinions, please. Keep entire archive or toss old? From: "Brook Ellingwood" <belling@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:08:52 -0700 |
Practically every post I've ever made anywhere online eventually embarrasses me. So do pictures of me as a baby, but that doesn't mean they have no value. I don't have time to keep up with the list on a daily (or even monthly) basis, and its primary value to me will always be the archives, which is how I found the list in the first place. If I occasionally stumble across myself asking really stupid questions, it's just a good reminder of how far I've come (and how much farther I still have to go). I look forward to someday wincing as I see this very message come up in a Google search. Not that I'd ever be so vain as to Google my own name... -- Brook -----Original Message----- From: Mulberry Technologies List Owner [mailto:xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:31 PM 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 -- ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in XML and SGML ======================================================================
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