[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

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Emily Monroe wrote:
>> This conversation seems to be getting a little steeped in "attack"  
>> mode, doesn't it?
>>     
>
> That was an honest, legitimate hypothetical question of mine. I  
> addressed it primarily to Will, and secondarily to everybody. I never  
> mean to attack anyone. I wouldn't live with my conscious if I had  
> lived a life like that. If I did unintentionally attack *anyone*, then  
> I owe an apology to Will and the list that I'm offering now.
>   
I apologise for making it unclear that I was talking about the tone of 
the conversation as a whole rather than your comments specifically.
>> So my question at this point in the debate would be to ask myself  
>> why someone who lives "in a place where there isn't any library for  
>> hours (or  days even)" would be overly bothered about verifying  
>> right that second.
>>     
>
> I didn't mean to imply that they would be bothered about verifying  
> references right that second. I was starting to read into this debate  
> (and maybe it's just me) that every Wikipedian should be bothered  
> about verifying right that second. I was proven wrong when Will  
> pointed out that that wasn't his point.
>   
My apologies for not having got to that point in the conversation at the 
time I replied.