At 11:03 PM -0700 5/13/01, Ryan Sorensen wrote:
>
>I didn't want to have to come up with my own list if someone had done work
>before me.
Past work is overrated.
Or, more importantly, doing your own thinking on problems like this
is much more important than asking others what they think. Richard
Feynman is often associated with this point of view.
>
>Other ones I was thinking of were the number of syllables used in words,
>length of paragraphs, number of times sentences are "split" and go on their
>way towards run on sentences. These would be in addition to the ones listed
>by Jim Windle. (Thanks Jim!)
Exactly. And your act of making a list, thinking about the issues, is
much more useful towards solving the problem than gettting inputs
from others.
>
> > Will frequent posters to this and other mailing lists have specific
>> posts fall into correlation "bins"? You tell us.
>On this list? It's hard to say. I haven't been actively paying attention to
>the way people write here for long enough.
Well, your answer probably won't come out of your memories of what
you read...this is all a matter of computer crunching.
>
>Is it common on mailing lists to adress people by first name?
>I know I see this sort of behavior on mailing lists between regulars, but
>I'm not quite sure of how it works with people new to posting on said lists.
>And Tim, this was the question I was asking you earlier. I notice now it may
>have been misconstrued as a poor jab regarding the recent "Timmy" thing.
I didn't answer you for two reasons:
-- you can make your own conclusions based on what people write
-- the "Timmy" thing was a predictable (that is, I've seen in many
times in my 49 years) insult levelled at me by a nym nymed "Eric
Cordian"
There are some who favor the stilted use of "Mr." instead of actual
names. I don't get what the fuck their point is.
An interesting pattern I've noticed is that some people will, in the
midst of a heated or angry debate, begin calling their respondent
"Mr. So-and-so" even when before they had called him "John" or "Tim."
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
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