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Re: a note about the scenarios

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Mon, 27 September 2004 13:14 UTC

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From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:03:14PM -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
> Or overwhelmed by the length of the documents that describe these issues 
> in detail.
> 
> If you're looking for a way to get people to ignore an idea, make it too 
> long to bother to read. ;-)

Indeed.  When I then see a 360 line email saying "here's the issues from
20,000 feet", I'm not getting any closer to the crux :)

It must be possible to present the key issues on a page of A4 if you want
to get the "masses" to form any kind of opinion.

Or maybe the whole O vs C thing is symptomatic of the problem?

Tim

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