"Warner Mach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I have had a chance to follow IBM-MAIN on a regular basis the last > few months and I have noticed a curious thing: The number of message > entries on a given topic seems to be inversely proportional to how > 'on track' the topic is ... Usually actual technical issues, no > matter how complex, are dispatched fairly quickly. Note that I am > not making a value judgement here. Just an observation. > . > If R=Measure of relevance from 1 to 100 with 100 being highly relevant. > E=Number of entries. C=Some constant: > Then: E = C/R . >
Thanks for the scientific investigation of what we all feel regularly, take part in, and dislike at the same time. I think the formula proves itsself: the population is keen on picing up questions and answering them in detail, providing sideinfo for proof or clarification. This sideinfo very easily leads to a branch from the topic, to which the same rules apply: this is picked up again, answered, clarified, corrected and within hours or days we have a widely brached discussion that sometimes dies by itsself, sometimes has to be killed. Kees. (wondering what this thread will have led to by the end of the week). ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
