From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>, Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools...
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 10:25:00 -0000
Message-ID: <76g0pnjhmt.fsf@odie.lanl.gov>
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X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00023.html
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    Eric> I don't think anybody doubts that it was your intention to
    Eric> be clear.  Your execution, however, completely failed in
    Eric> that respect.  The failure seems to me to be an indicator of
    Eric> a wider problem in the technical culture surrounding SGML,
    Eric> one I've bitched about before.

Please do not post rude messages to this list.

On this list we should not tell people that "they have failed" just
because their pedagogical approach did not work for us.