> From: Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 08:53 AM 9/26/01, you wrote: > > > 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_ma xd=11&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=1997&as_mind=29&as_minm=3&as_miny=1995 > > > >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=b1e06bb07319e346,10 79&ic=1 > > > >When I read it, it was 1100+ messages, but this dosent seem to add up to > >that many. > > > Apparently this occurred before I got here.
Not here, there. More specifically: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (usenet news) We were talking about the numbers of messages, and I used another authors group as an example.
