Re: Premature announcements was Re: Feathered Dinosaur Specimen

[KiernanCR@aol.com]

E.S. wrote:

>>May I respectfully differ...<<

You may, though I'm not certain we're actually in disagreement.

>>It's not the "internet" that is playing havoc, it is HUMAN BEINGS. The 
internet didn't sent information to this list, a person did. <<

I'm not so willing to draw a hard dichotomy between people and the tools that 
they use. The internet is a collection of computers and humans interacting 
with those computers and with other humans. It is the combination of that 
network of hardware *and* social interaction that I meant when I spoke of the 
internet playing havoc.

>>I guess I just think it's a matter of courtesy to the people who spent "n" 
years doing the work and research to let them get the opportunity to actually 
publish.<<

And I agree entirely.

The expectation for instant gratification nurtured by the internet (in this 
case, the instant aquisition of data) is often at odds with established (and 
justifiably established) protocol.

But this is a dead horse and has been flogged on the DML many times before.

>>Do you have an e-mail address for The Internet so I can send he/she/it an 
e-mail and gripe about this s'more?<<

I often wish that I did. :)

Caitlin R. Kiernan