Re: PAB Consensus Call: Email archives

From: Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 1998 - 07:52:43 PST


On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 08:58:17AM -0500, Bob Helfant wrote:
> Dave,
>
> You state that small groups discussing specific issues regarding a public
> trust can be secret and large groups discussing general issues should be
> open to the world and Sascha at least, agrees with you. Saying it does not
> make it true.

It is, however, undeniably true, that actually keeping secrets in a
large group is very, very difficult -- especially if those secrets
have any value (such as a competitive strategy that depends on
surprise). Thus, trying to hatch a secret plot among 200 online
users isn't just a bad idea -- it's basically stupid.

We all know that our actual competitors have essentially full access
to both the PAB list and the CORE list.

Yes, let's plot a super strategy that *depends* on the element of
surprise... now that would *really* be giving our competitors an
advantage.

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair			"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
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