Re: Expiring drafts policy

[James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>]

Andrew Sullivan writes:
> I have heard people make the argument (which I find somewhat
> compelling, though not actually persusive) that people are more likely
> to propose possibly nitwit ideas on the grounds if they know they
> won't, in 10 years time, be held up to ridicule because of the silly
> ideas they once proposed.  I guess this is the throw-at-wall,
> see-what-sticks school of engineering.
> 
> I think the force of this argument is rather blunted because the
> current tools site, but it still has something to recommend it.

These folks have apparently never met Google or the Internet Archive.

Even without the archiving going on at the tools site, a quick search
easily nets me gems like this:

  http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-01.txt

I don't think you can really hide.

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