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I don't know about you all, but I find it impossible - just
impossible - to keep up with the hundreds of FW posts that
accumulate over a few days, particularly if I am to pay any
attention and take seriously the stuff that FW-ers are
asking me to think about.
Arthur, would it be reasonable to set a limit on how many
posts a subscriber can send in a given 24-hour period - like
3? (I think a filter can be set up on the server.)
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Here's my thought: Maybe we should take most of our postings, and "sleep on it", and, if in the morning, we still felt it was worth sending (and after revising in the light of a new day and the previous night's "fermentation"...), if in the light of a new day it still seemed worth posting, then send it. Of course, my email program (I don't know about yours...) doesn't exactly encourage this.
I think we need to start building *delay circuits* into instant communication technologies. Imagine what this could do in the "markets" (I think it would make it harder for some people to make "killings", i.e., for some other people to get screwed). Complete transparency of information, combined with orders being subject to a time delay *after* they were posted, would perhaps somewhat dampen [the spirits of] the ~free~ market[eers].
Supercomputer technologies, it seems to me, give us the opportunity to have people see the results of their market transactions before they actually "commit" (that's a technical comp. sci. term...) them. Yes, I think that projective hyper-transparency just might help bring under control the epileptic spasms of the invisible hand.
\brad mccormick
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