On 02/02/2008, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
Get over it. Nobility has been being used as
(effective) policy for
many
months, if not years.
It's been used. I've yet to see any evidence of its effectiveness, and
particularly no evidence that it is meaningfully superior to a general
policy of deleting based on qualitative rather than quantitative
judgments.
That's not what he means by effective. He means it is, in effect,
policy. Not that the policy is effective.