> From: Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > > Guess you were not around, back when a month with less than 1,400
> > > messages was considered a relatively QUIET month...
> >
> > As opposed to say ~500 messages / Day? (in quiet times between books).
>
> Are those ~500 messages per day actual discussions, or are they to a large
> extent rants, flames and personal attacks (not entirely uncommon in
> newsgroups)?
Yes. Very tiny percent. Some percent.
Depends on the thread. Some people there do not tolerate idiocy. A large percentage
of the discussions tend to be off topic.
Then again, there is the _Great_ M*rm*n Flame war (one of the best arguments I've ever
read):
Hmm. Google groups seems to have changed it. After some hard work I think it starts
here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=b1e06bb07319e346&as_drrb=b&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=1997&as_mind=29&as_minm=3&as_miny=1
995
Then there seems to be a break that wasn't there before, and my old link points to
this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&th=b1e06bb07319e346,1079&ic=1
When I read it, it was 1100+ messages, but this dosent seem to add up to that many.
