On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Much likely nothing bad > would happen by handing out a list, but to avoid a "Now, why didn't I > think of that?"-issue the easiest solution seems to reject such > requests in general, at least as long as it's not obviously that the > research is "good" (what ever this means) for the Arch community and/or > human kind or the universe in general. So you're admitting that you can't come up with a real concern and are opposing just for the sake of opposing. I think it's important to discuss such issues a lot in general, because they improve our reasoning. But just to take away the outcome of your well-meaning pessimism: There could be a white hair in that soup just as there could indeed be a black hair in the opposite colored "Now, why didn't I think of that?" soup of well-meaning optimism you warn against. If you can follow this rahter heavily metaphoric dish of thought, it looks like we learned something today, in that case. cheers! mar77i
