Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:51:35 -0800

From:	Eric Armstrong
	eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com Reply-To: unrev-II@egroups.com

To:	unrev-II@egroups.com

Subject:

Is "bootstrapping" part of the problem?

Well, I'd love to reply to parts of this. I switched my mail client to use HTML editing so I could do so. But:

• There are are ton of yellow tags in the included text.

• I can't find any way to intersperse my replies

• When I tried CTRL+NL to see if I could create an out-dented reply, the whole message disappeared. It may have been sent. Dunno. It certainly didn't get saved.

It reminds of one of my very early posts, where I postulated a long-range goal of being able to present and compare *models* in a DKR. Even got a model-construction kit started, though I've never found time to write up the notes.

However, short of constructing, sharing, and comparing models, there is a lot to be said for a system that helps us organize a conversation like this one, keep track of the threads, and identify which arguments have been countered, which haven't, and perhaps even provide some rudimentary rating of the arguments in agree/disagree form.

Sincerely,

Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com