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Re: objection to proposed change to "consensus"

2006-01-09 12:35:15
On 01/09/2006 14:02 PM, John C Klensin allegedly wrote:
While I agree that diagrams are not simply a religious issue, I
think that there are many cases in which the use of diagrams,
especially complex ones, leaves people with the impression that
they have understood something when, in fact, they do not.  

the need to describe a complex concept in text
or in ASCII art imposes a discipline that is actually quite
useful. 

Yup, although we've seen plenty of cases where people understand text
differently as well.

I think I'm beginning to like TeX again.

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