If you have ever been in pain over namespaces in OWL ontologies and RDF data, you may want to read this year-old day-time television soap opera script, errr...ummmm... I mean, highly technical discussion about namespaces. My guess is that this pain will be with us for a long time.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.semantic-web/11878

FWIW, gmane seems to be a rather nice syndication mechanism for mailing lists, making it quite a bit easier than looking in gnu-mailman archives to follow old threads . My only complaint is that you have to poke a bit to find the originals (whereupon you are grateful to gmane)

Bob