On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:56:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
Not only do I not know this, I find it to be patently false. Yes, I think a high percentage of users is too ignorant to know what they need or how to get it. However, protecting them from that ignorance only propogates and perpetuates it. Pain is one of natures most effective educators.
Fine. But the pain doesn't *hurt* the people who cause it. See also: Tragedy of the Commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_Commons if you didn't have a better explanation handy. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me