23 Jul
2019
23 Jul
'19
7:07 p.m.
On Jul 20, 2019, at 8:00 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Nonetheless, comparing some small amount of lost information to genocide, which is a real
thing that has happened and is still happening in the world today, and which has affected
people on the list and those they are close to, is more than a bit offensive.
Please be more considerate of this and, as was suggested by the person whose
correspondence you posted, examine your sense of scale.
-- Chris
While I agree
that making a non-optimal digital copy in such cases, is,
well, non-optimal (because for _many uses_, the basic information is still
available, wheras for many important documents, not even that remains),
there's no way it's "right up there with genocide" - and if you really
think so, you definitely need to examine your sense of scale, because it's
seriously defective.
[name removed]
I agree that when historical documents are lost without even any kind of
digital copy made, that's the worst.
However I was pretty careful to preceded that quoted paragraph with conditionals.