From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 04:32:00 EDT
On 28/04/2004 16:33, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>... If you want to abolish the PUA,
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>I do not, and have no idea why you are imputing that to me, except,
>I suppose, because I have been speaking against your position.
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>>have the courage of your convictions and propose doing so (or at least
>>formally deprecating it), instead of leaving it in the standard in a
>>form which makes it look useful but in fact be useless.
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You did write the following, in response to Dean:
>>Currently, I view the PUA as practically a wasteland, unusable for even
>>for the most basic research work.
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>A wise decision, all in all.
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Maybe "abolish" was not the right word as presumable aboition would
breach stability agreements. But you do seem to want to "deprecate" it,
or at least to strongly discourage its use, except apparently for purely
internal use within one company, which is outside the scope of the standard.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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