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From: eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: Jargon File Editorial Philosophy
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:01:58 GMT
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In <12418@milton.u.washington.edu> Mark Crispin wrote:
> "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."
> 
> If possible, I would like to bring in slang and folklore from the
> 1960's, NOT delete it or relegate it to an appendix (for later
> deletion).
> 
> The world is ill-served by censoring stuff that some Winston Smith
> thinks can be "retired."

Isn't this a bit...excessive, Mark?

I am not proposing to `forget' the ITS/PDP-10 world. Far from it; didn't
you read my comment re `sacrilege'?

The idea that `Appendix B' is marked for deletion was someone else's, not
mine, and I don't agree with it. I'm all for preserving the historical
material *as historical material*; the issue before us is not content, but
organization.

Please try to cool down a bit. Your opinions on this are important to me;
that's why you're one of the few to have been mailed the advance 2.1.7 version.
Your comments on 2.1.1 were very valuable and I incorporated nearly all of
them.

Just say the word and I'll ship you a copy of my entire jargon project
archives, including my USENET-submissions mailbox containing attestations for
most of those terms you've never seen.

By descending to the level of an ad-hominem attack on me (which you've done
in this and at least one other posting on this thread) you only damage your
own prospects of getting the policy changes you want.  You have a lot of
prestige with me and (I hope) with other members of this group. Don't blow
it on non-issues, man!
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)