[microformats-discuss] Re: Educationg Others

Wed Oct 5 04:42:35 PDT 2005

Hi Danny,
On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:
> So although the slogans may be helpful for adoption, I'd suggest
> caution in assuming that things will work in the general case,
> whatever success there has been with specific cases.

A very valid point. However, I'm not sure we really understand the 
"general case" well enough to even answer that question.
After all, in a certain sense URLs don't work in the "general case" 
-- but that's why they actually work in real life.
 From my perspective, the real lesson is to always be aware of second- 
order legacy effects, and keep track of your boundary assumptions. 
That seems the best we can humanly do without, as they say, "trying 
to boil the ocean." :-)
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