You've clearly got a strongly-held point of view on this, but for a counter-point, this right here is the main point whose importance you diminish: > If someon

You've clearly got a strongly-held point of view on this, but for a counter-point, this right here is the main point whose importance you diminish: > If someone wanted to change it, they'd email one of the maintainers In the modern world (given how busy everyone is and how overflowing everyone's inbox is), in practice, this likely translates to: the document ceases to be maintained. > it strikes me as a fairly damning indictment of the state of the web That's one take. Alternately: how great it is that an infrastructure and culture now exists in which documents like this can be published and actively maintained by multiple people, without the friction-points of email & FTP, and without the failure-points of individuals and their contactability & availability.