[CAUT] Requirements for contributing/posting; RPT status

[Alan McCoy]

 Well Ron there's nothing really limiting by using a forum structure for the
conversation instead of a list server. The conversation would still exist in
un-digested form. People would choose to reply to a thread or begin a new
one, or not read it at all. The system would not in any way limit what you
see or what you say. You choose what you want to pay attention to, or not,
by subscribing to whatever you want to subscribe to, or not. The
organization of the threads, the conversation, is neither in your control ,
nor not in your control. The organization of the conversation reflects the
sensibilities of all who use it, and changes as the community of users see
fit, dynamically and ongoing.

I apologize for misunderstanding you, BTW. When you said, "Kind of like
life. In my experience, organization is possible only when you have all the
information already. " I thought when you said this that you meant that
organization is not possible unless you have all the information already.

Well it is moot anyway, because I'm certainly not going to push real hard
for a change to a forum, and no one else is either

Of course having two lists such as we do has its own limitations.

Alan

> them. I, for one, don't want things pre-digested either by
> someone else, or by a system that limits what I get to see and
> choose from. Yes, I am well aware that already happens
> everywhere, but I prefer processing what I still can of what I
> still care about, for myself.
> 
> 
>> Of course you are right in that when you are on the edge of your
>> knowledgebase and pushing forward into new territory, the learning happens
>> fast and furious (and some mistakes too). It's what keeps me interested. But
>> I'm constantly trying to organize that new information so when I tread the
>> path again I may not stumble as much. No doubt, I also will not take the
>> exact same path again, based on the experience I've had.
> 
> Exactly, which means you need all the data possible, right?
> And we're always at the edge of our knowledge base, whether we
> realize it or not, but the more the diversity of input is
> limited either by choice or circumstance, the less likely we
> are to recognize this.
> 
> 
>> If you organize (and you do if you are human), and cast that organization in
>> stone, then yep, the organization gets in the way. But I don't for a minute
>> think that organization of data is inherently lossy.
> 
> No, not inherently, just subject (or at least vulnerable) to
> victimization by the chosen methods.
> 
> 
>> It's not so much your knowledge (or your belief, or your organization) that
>> matters, but how you hold onto it. As for me, I have a pretty loose grip.
>> 
>> Pesky Al
> 
> As do I, which is why I need continual booster shots...
> Ron N