<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Mark Davies <<a href="mailto:mark@snowtiger.net">mark@snowtiger.net</a>> wrote:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> this distinction is currently fundamental to our classification system.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">I certainly agree that it's best not to rush this, lest something silly be accidentally perpetrated.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">That said, classification is not fundamental to ringing. It's just a tool folks have chosen to use when applicable, and the tool should be our servant, not the other way around. In this case, I think single lead methods will be rare enough in practice that they don't need the complicated taxonomic machinery currently employed* for the usual single hunt fare. One presumes this will be another area where insisting on too rigid a notion of method extension and shared naming schemes is going to cause unnecessary pain :-)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> do still wonder if there is some validity in the philosophical</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">> argument that methods must have structure,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">Treat any statement in this vicinity that includes the word "must" with skepticism. In this case it appears to be simply a matter of taste.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">* Of course, it will not surprise you that I also think that taxonomy is overly complicated for the needs of the usual stuff, too.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">-- </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">Don Morrison <<a href="mailto:dfm@ringing.org">dfm@ringing.org</a>></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">"The poet...may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="courier new, monospace">he is also part of the weather." -- Lionel Trilling</font></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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