[ASLML] Fw: A7.52

[Bruce Bakken]

Sam,

I am insulted by your "take your meds" remark.

Does insulting a fellow Lister qualify as behavior that should be moderated?

I have to believe you have missed my point entirely.

>
>These -are- frivolous questions. It's a GAME. The company posts some Q&A 
>and
>because we want access to more some of us compile lists of Q&A and make 
>them
>available.
>

If the company posts *some* Q&A, why aren't they *all* posted?  [I've heard 
the explanation before, I just can't recall it at this time.]  It's such a 
simple matter, really.  You can attest to that, you know how easy it 
actually is to post text to a web page.

In the time it takes any rules arbitrater to read the question, do the 
research, mull the response, type it, and push the button to send it, it is 
a matter of mere additional seconds to copy and past it to the OFFICIAL Q&A 
WEB SITE, which is MMP.

The fact that it's not being done suggests to me one of two things: either 
they're too lazy (which I doubt, I'll wager Perry and MMP work very hard at 
what they do), or there is still room enough for doubt that the Q&A hasn't 
merited "official" status.  It can't be a question of time: it takes more 
time to read an email and respond to it than it does to copy and paste text.

Notwithstanding misguided statements from Listers that the application of 
DRM is "no big deal, shut up already", the determination of probability is 
the essence of the ASL game system.  As an exercise, trying doing it the 
other way from how you've learned it, and you may see the difference that it 
actually can make.  Why should something so important, and that has been 
admitted to not be as clear as it might, and that has been demonstrated to 
engender alternate interpretations, be allowed to continue as is?

I believe it is reasonable that the ASL community should expect a more 
respectful and official treatment of this issue.  That is my opinion.

>I've made a decision. From now on, I will not bother to play anyone who
>can't accept a Q&A until its been printed in a Journal. I will also steer
>away from those who doubt Perry's existence.
>

The OFFICIAL Q&A WEB SITE would be fine.  I have never doubted Perry's 
existence.  I question the viability of maintaining a record using an 
electronic medium that can easily be corrupted or degraded; and if you're 
going to use an electronic medium, why not simply use the ONE AND TRUE 
OFFICIAL SOURCE FOR Q&A, namely www.multimanpublishing.com?


Bruce B.

>Sam "Perry is Alive" Belcher
>
>

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