SUMit Roster Software > Nut's > April 2005 > Decision

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This division seems clear: Getting information is not the same thing as taking a decision.

	Getting information	Taking a decision
Result	Shows information.	Records data.
Impact	none, is repeatable	makes a difference
Looks	hyperlink	form with button
HTTP Method	GET	POST

Clear difference The planning screen of the SUMit Roster program shows a clear distinction: All hyperlinks show other information The button "Save" records taken decisions.
More difficult distinction: Search The difference is more difficult at a search screen. Searching visitors seek information, that does not seem to be a decision. Yet, their quest is recorded. Google allows you to get a list of your previous searches. see a summary of searches by others in Google's Zeitgeist So a search action does record data, makes a difference through a form with a button. Hmm, that does look a lot like a decision
End of GET? Now, this train of thoughts imposes a difficulty. A lot of users do not realize that their actions are recorded. Are all clicked hyperlinks decisions as well? Are all visited web pages decisions because they are recorded in the history of the browser? Can something be a decision, even if the decision taker is not aware of taking it? Does that turn all of your actions on the Internet into decisions?	Easy to record data Dutch time is now: 03:46:38 2026p 30 Apr 2026. Your IP adres: 216.73.217.97 You surf via: 216.73.217.97 Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)

All of this can only lead to one conclusion, a firm decision:
It is impossible to get information without taking a decision.