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Re:Mailing list debates considered harmful by tbrownaw on Saturday May 29, 2010 @11:28AM (#1388827)
From the first couple paragraphs, this sounds like it's mostly a complaint about the existence of bikeshed topics. Which exist in any discussion medium.
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Re:Mailing list debates considered harmful by philh on Saturday May 29, 2010 @01:44PM (#1388994)
Not really. The problem isn't "people are debating trivial things instead of letting shit get done". It's "people are debating all sorts of things, and it's impossible to work out what state each of the separate debates is in".
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Re:Mailing list debates considered harmful by teolicy on Saturday May 29, 2010 @06:19PM (#1389377)
A good one-line summary of what I meant.
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