On Aug 28, 2013, at 11:49 AM, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 11:25, Paul Eggert wrote:
But the motivation is not "neatness" or "tidying up": it is to avoid future political brouhahas like the ones we've had recently, brouhahas that consume far too much of our time.
I don't understand why it consumed any time at all. The change being requested was literally a one-word change to zone.tab that would have impacted nothing. My theory (and the basis for my perhaps overly strongly worded earlier post calling that original change a blunder) is that it was your pride, since you had made the change that it would have reversed in the first place, but even that is only guesswork.
Another point is that none of the recent political nonsense is in any way related to old data -- quite the contrary, it is entirely about the current information. paul