Registry discussion

[Arnold Rots]

That means shutting certain people out of the discussion until it has
died down.  My problem was that I wanted to react to one of Ray's
posts, but by the time I got around to it, there had been a dozen or
so other messages on the subject, so I just gave up, rather than turn
it into a worse cacaphony.

The discussion between a limited number of high-volume responders may
create the false impression of convergence when they approach consensus
among themselves.  There may still be many opinions on the sidelines
that have not been thrown into the discussion.

  - Arnold

Tony Linde wrote:
> I understand the difficulty of keeping up with a wide ranging and fast
> moving discussion but I personally welcome this sort of activity - it is
> more likely to get us to a state where we can produce a proposal which
> captures most people's ideas and attracts fewer objections than if just one
> person (or one project) sits down and develops it.
> 
> Those who do not have the time or inclination to get involved in the mailing
> list discussion can wait until the flurry dies down, read the two dozen or
> so messages and then make a considered comment - as I did with the NVO
> metadata list messages which then generated the traffic here.
> 
> The end result *will* be a summary, either wholly or as part of a working
> draft. And people can wait to make their comments then if they wish.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> > On Behalf Of Pierre Fernique
> > Sent: 15 September 2003 09:58
> > To: registry at ivoa.net
> > Subject: Registry discussion
> > 
> > 
> > Clive Page wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Arnold Rots wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>For people who don't do VO full-time it's impossible to 
> > keep up with 
> > >>this stream-of-consciousness kind of e-mail discussion :-(
> > > 
> > > 
> > > My sentiments exactly.
> > > 
> > 
> > My sentiments also.
> > Pierre Fernique
> > 
> 
> 
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