Re: [hybi] email granularity, was: WebSockets feedback

[Pieter Hintjens <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Tim Bray <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Ian's massive batch
> updates defeat this strategy and decrease the likelihood that I'll be
> able to participate meaningfully.  -T

Is it fair to conclude that observers are happy with the summary
emails (though they do not actually capture a summary of the group's
mind), while participants see them as difficult to work with?

I'm registering this because the next time I'm involved in designing a
protocol (bye bye AMQP! :-) and want to dissuade people from arguing,
it seems like an ideal strategy.  And the more they try to argue, the
longer I'll wait before replying, and the longer I'll make the emails,
until they give up.

Ian, do you accept that answering a specific question many weeks
later, in the middle of a hundred other questions, is akin to putting
the reply on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in
a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the
Leopard'...?

-Pieter

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