recurrent issues

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

I didn't even know there was one until now!

I guess it's just a general philosophic difference between lumpers & splitters. It's like when I posted a thread response that was applicable partly to American & Canadian football and partly to Rugby Union, and someone in charge took it on himself to move it to whichever he thought its greatest application was. I like to connect things, other people like to disconnect them.

For the 1 time that "lumping" is good (new information has come to light that helps resolve some old dispute), there are 99 times that it's bad (someone has just joined the forum and takes it upon himself to go back and answer every thread in the past 2 years, and the answer that the newbie gives in post #35 is the same as the correct answers given in posts #3, #14, #17 and #23. Then, someone reads the answer, doesn't realize it's an old thread and starts asking all the "what if" questions that were already asked).