David Hobby {[EMAIL PROTECTED]} wrote:
>> These 6th graders are interested in receiving email from around the
>> US and around the world.
> Interesting. I got one of those from another class a year
> ago. Thinking "That's a neat idea!", I emailed them, only to
> discover that the response had been so overwhelming that they had
> to close their account.
> And now not many people are responding? My thoughts after
> the first one were that these things always grow at an exponential
> rate. If the exponent is much more than 1, the originators get
> overwhelmed. If it's less than 1, they get only a few responses.
> So this email chain manages to have an exponent of 1 + epsilon?
> Amazing!
i suspect that part of it is that more people are wary of
'exponential growth email', having seen the various petitions and
chain-letters. the email does show some signs of having learned from
all that - it has a kill date and a url in it. i wonder what other
behaviours will change as the world becomes more and more
interconnected.....
cheers,
christopher
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Christopher Gwyn
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