Now you have to avoid the mathematician's mistake of numbering everything. Do you really keep track of spoken conversations you have, by a number assigned when you start them? Of course not. Often just the person is enough to identify it, sometimes it is person plus a subject. Sometimes something else. Heck, a random icon, for subject might be more useful than a number. (wordpress, for instance, assigns a geometric icon to any identified but not registered user).
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Date: 2008-07-24 07:20 pm (UTC)Now you have to avoid the mathematician's mistake of numbering everything. Do you really keep track of spoken conversations you have, by a number assigned when you start them? Of course not. Often just the person is enough to identify it, sometimes it is person plus a subject. Sometimes something else. Heck, a random icon, for subject might be more useful than a number. (wordpress, for instance, assigns a geometric icon to any identified but not registered user).