Ulli, On 29 Jan 2004, at 14:03, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote (privately):

What is the difference between the following to answers from the database (One with the existing Machine [ changing the default answer behaviour] and one following the proposal):

I want to share my response with the list. No difference between the answers. The difference is in the cost to (effort for) a netadmin in setting up the IRT stuff. Marco's statistics, as I understood them, seem to bear this out: there is a ratio of 2 orders of magnitude between the instances respectively of IRT references and free-text remarks about abuse notifications. I'm close to convinced that the IRT approach is correct, elegant, and the rest. I just find it too much trouble to use: I need it to be much easier than that to advertise my abuse contacts. As the saying goes, "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." Make it barely good enough, but simple; then we'll see it adopted. Niall PS. "Daddy, what does 'feature creep' mean?"