soprano-backend-sesame2

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:45 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 16:30:54 Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > ... which I find disturbing. It is really hard for a new contributor
> > to get used to the jargons used in these email lists, to the point
> > where it becomes discouraging, sometimes.
> 
> And where do you stop explaining all the terms?
> What is the lowest level that you assume for your readers?
> 
> If you come from the academic world and you entering a new area the scenario 
> above is precisely what you find, some incomprehensible jargon and a strange 
> reasoning. :-)
> 
> What in this list has worked until now is to ask if you don't understand what 
> is the context.
> 
> This is a friendly list and I don't remember answers like RTFM (read the fine 
> manual). As a general rule there is always someone that either answers or at 
> least provides places where to find more details.

I actually agree with you on this. I don't think it's realistic to
expect an informal forum such as this to follow strict rules about
references, nor is that what I was complaining about in my original
post. It's a question of striking the right balance, that's all.

poc