On 5/26/06, Delirium <delirium(a)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