Re: paleonet Dinosaur Genera List update #187

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 7/26/02 11:53:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jlipps@uclink4.berkeley.edu writes:

<< Great idea!  Let's just let use dictate, then we are free of the ICZN.  We
 don't need rules!  We can just get all our friends to do it our way.  Later
 on,
 we can all get together again and change it to whatever is popular then.  In 
a
 few years, it won't make any difference what it was since no one will have 
any
 idea of what it means.   >>

Rules are fine, but when they perpetuate an injustice for which the original 
authors are blameless, they should be set aside, perhaps by petition if not 
by preponderant usage. It's not a matter of popularity. The ICZN can set 
aside whatever rules it likes whenever it pleases, under its plenary powers.