26 May
2005
26 May
'05
9:18 a.m.
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
isn't easy. It is not necessary to assume that
people will be stupid
-- instead, assume they are very smart, but they have to rediscover
the basics from the record we're creating for them.
This is a better way to express what I have been trying to say. I don't
literally mean that we should assume future people are stupid, but do
assume that they won't have the benefit of knowing certain things and
therefore we should make our archives as simple as is practical. This is
common sense as far as I'm concerned.
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