REPLY Models, Problems and Systems (SD7041)

[SDMAIL Jack Homer]

Posted by  "Jack Homer" <jhomer at comcast.net>

Kim Warren writes:
"I'd just ask, though, that we not discourage people from resurrecting 
old questions [and answers]."

People should be encouraged to ask any question they want, and novices 
will, of course, end up asking old questions.  That's fine.  I'm not 
asking questioners to censor themselves, but have rather asked that the 
inexperienced think twice before laying out a thousand-word treatise 
attempting to answer (from their perspective typically coming from some 
other field, and ignorant of ours) something already well answered in 
our field.  I posted previously about how the extended (and repeated) 
discussion of old questions can be dismaying to experienced SD people, 
and I have already received a few private emails from experienced SD 
people confirming that this is exactly why they have largely disengaged 
from the listserve.

Jack Homer
Posted by  "Jack Homer" <jhomer at comcast.net>
posting date  Mon, 12 May 2008 08:32:57 -0400