Oh year!  Sez who?

-jc

Ken Follett wrote:

> In a message dated 6/9/00 8:46:40 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > People outside of the field are more likely to look there for answers than
> here and after all you could count on a straight answer at P-L.
>
> Do we need to revive PL so that we can avoid lost tourists asking questions?
>
> The premise behind BP, despite the problems of keeping a straight face, is
> that in the chaos of play in dialogue we provide context of community and
> when a question is asked we have, at our own discretion, a means to reinforce
> our own personal judgement as to the worth of the answer. The straight answer
> is no longer the sole possession of the straight authority. The cost of the
> answers, and of the liberation to judge information for ourselves, is putting
> up with each other. BP represents an experiment in how the global information
> network can provide a semblance of verified information in a human context.
>
> ][<en