[Talk-us] Another day, another bad import

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Alan Millar <grunthos503 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 1, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
>> Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another
>> reason to hate imports.
>
> Yeah...  Every time I go editing in some new place, I always find another reason to hate newbies, too.

I think that is different in a significant way.  It is much easier to
"fix a newbie" than to fix an import.  And when you do "fix a newbie"
You've not only fixed their mapping to date, but also their mapping in
the future, and even the future mapping of the mappers they meet.