Re: FAQ Maintenance?

Phil wrote:
) Which is precisely why it's a bad idea, IMHO. I trust JLG to maintain
) it - I trust MM to maintain it. I'd trust you to maintain it, but I
) sure as heck wouldn't trust "anyone who cares to register". Prevention
) of abuse is far better than the ability to simply cure it /post facto/.

I'll give a specific (hypothetical) example of what would happen:

Somebody will alter the 'counting theorem' entry to say that it is only
a theory that has never been satisfactorily proven, or that it can be
circumvented by such-and-such method, entries will apear about several
infinite compression schemes, and so on.


SaSW, Willem
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