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RE: Is it just me...

• From: "Hanson, Jon" <jhanson@l...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:03:26 +0100

Would it make sense to have a separate mailing list for discussing the
political merits of XML, SGML, W3C, etc and keep this one as a more
technically oriented list? I'm getting rather fed up with having delete
stacks of messages attacking or defending the W3C and the like, when as a
developer I'm more interested in learning how to use XML...

jon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Caroline Clewlow [SMTP:cclewlow@e...]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:10 PM
> To:	xml-dev@x...
> Subject:	Re: Is it just me...
> 
> I would say that this indicates that the political/conceptual issues are
> far more complex than the actual technical aspects of XML.
> Thats certainly my opinion anyway :-)
> 
> Caroline
> 
> 
> Mike.Champion@S... wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >      -----Original Message-----
> >      From:   Tim Bray [SMTP:tbray@t...]
> >      Sent:   Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:52 AM
> >      To:     xml-dev@x...
> >      Subject:        Is it just me...
> >           ...or does the payload ratio - payload being technical
> >           content of
> >           interest to XML developers, in their role as developers -
> >           seem kind
> >           of low around here these days?
> >
> > Yup, the list has gone from a very few, quite technical posts to a lot
> > of much more political/conceptual posts in the last couple of weeks.
> >
> > What does that say about this group of XML developers?  Perhaps that
> > we have a reasonable handle on HOW to use the various XML technologies
> > out there, but are struggling with the "When?" and "Who?" and "Why?"
> > questions?

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