Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/26/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Since most of us don't have sufficient funds to travel to public meetings, nor sufficiently flexible schedules to sit around on IRC, it should be no surprise that we're much more willing to debate on mailing lists, which are the most inclusive. If there were a public meeting in Atlanta, I would certainly attend, but to my knowledge there hasn't been one.
If you consider your own contributions of such low value that they are not worth going out of your way to present, even including sending someone else in your place... then why should we expect them to be worth our time reading on a mailing list?
How do you measure the worth of a person's contributiona? Some of us have real lives. Perhaps you are independently wealthy, and can do this. For most of us, however, running around the world to defend our contributions would require a significant outlay for which no subsidies are available.
Ec