Re: Some thoughts about process

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Grant wrote:
> 
> 2.  A lot of interesting ideas, such as the current discussion of
> gallows letters, are floated, and calculations
>  are produced, etc. then the ideas disappear into the archives.
> Is there some way to gather
> such quantitative questions or theories and the resulting
> statistics about ut the VMS into one place
> (say, a FAQ) where  you could look at it all at once?

	I've thought better of this.  Certainly someone could
go through the archives, clip out the various
hypotheses that have been proposed, and put them into a
"hypotheses" file -- rather as I have been doing with
Historical Precedents.  This would be "quick and
dirty", just cut-and-paste with no attempt to make it
pretty or do deep thinking about the hypotheses thus
found.  I think that's doable.  Admittedly the
compiler's prejudices would affect this, but I think
that most of us are sufficiently open-minded that it
wouldn't be a problem.  After all, my prejudices affect
what I put into the Historical Precedents document, but
I still think it very useful.

	I'd volunteer, but I've got other irons in the fire. 
I'm hot and heavy on Hamptonese.  And I need to get a
job!!!  I've been so sick that I haven't held a job in
more than a year, but I finally feel well enough to
start looking.  

Dennis