On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:21, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
What's nice about Wikipedia is that noone *can* rip pages out of the books. They can put salt in the sugar dispenser. ______________________________________________
Actually, *anyone* can rip out a page. Then the library staff have to (A) detect and (B) revert the rip.
A better analogy (since torn pages are not perfectly reversible) is that people can go in and insert their own books on the shelves, as well as stick their own propaganda and pamphlets into the books--most of the time the additions are valuable, but sometimes they're juvenile pornography, or inflammatory tracts, etc.
And in this library everybody is staff.
And I don't want salt in sugar dispenser when I'm preparing cafe au lait.
Certainly.