[thesite] comments on test.evolt.org

Michele Foster michele at wordpro.on.ca
Thu Jun 28 01:10:43 CDT 2001


Folks...

Pretty much sitting on the fence on this one .. letting ya'll hash it out.
Nice to see such lively communication going back and forth. ;)   Such a
small feature has resulted in a hell of a lot of emails going back and forth
.. ;)

Anyway .. to comment on one small portion of what Jeff said..

----- Original Message -----
From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
|
| well, just so you know, it wasn't just me and isaac that were involved.
| michele also had some input too.


Yup.. that I did... and the *creepy* feeling of someone being a million
miles away having said the exact same thing that I was saying is still
there.  Isaac reading my mind .. now *that* was odd.   ;)

Personally, I think the idea is "neat".  My personal browser of choice is
IE5.5 .. which works great.. so, yeah, I'm biased.  Kudos to Jeff for
getting it to work in NS6 and whatever other browsers its now working in.
That said, I think a lot of things are "neat" .. that doesn't mean they'll
be a good idea for the majority, nor does it mean that they won't.


| it's difficult to include other people on the spot like that.

No worries on my end.   I was awake .. and we were talking about it at the
time you were implementing it.


i happened to have a small slot of time before going
| home for the night.  if i'd put out the question for input from others
| *before* working on it, it would have never been implemented, and could
have
| been another one of those good ideas that flushed down the shitter cause
| nobody has time to build it now, the idea didn't get approved by the right
| people, or whatever.

This is very true .. jumping in on an idea and getting it working is nice to
see.  Despite AT having been up for discussion for at least 6 weeks, it got
nixed 2 days after implementation.  The point being, often times waiting on
input from others doesn't produce the *required* responses.

There are a lot of times when an idea needs to be implemented (to a certain
point) in order to generate the *required* responses.  Meaning that, once
something is available for review/consideration, there is always the
possibility that the original idea will get nixed in the end.  It sucks ..
been there, done that.  A hard pill to swallow, but we (as a group) have to
move on.


Anyway, like I said at the beginning .. I'm sitting on the fence .. whatever
happens, happens.  I am the absolutely *worst* debater in the world, so,
best if I don't even try to keep up.


Rock on you guys .. Evolt is the best .. elsewise we'd all not be here
discussing this.  Just think, we could be debating whether we should unsub
someone from thelist just because they asked a question .. ;)


Michele
(flames to theCats please)






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