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CREATED BY David Ness • LAST EDITED BY David Ness 8367 days AGO

Lutz' sensible comments about `instant outlines' express many concerns I share. In addition to his points I think it might be worth mentioning that such technologies also tend to `scale' badly. An outline may be usefully shared between a couple of people, perhaps even three or four, but as the number increases, none of it seems to work very well---changes get buried and go unnoticed, while arguments can wander, seemingly endlessly, down cul-de-sacs of little general interest or purpose.
It all looks like the usual `Winer said ``Let there be light'', and, lo, there was light' kind of stuff that so pervades his writing...