On 2/12/01 1:35 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ahh, you got in a few years before I did.
Just a bit -- I wrote my first BBS-type system back in 1979-80. In Fortran
(whan all you have is a hammer, it all looks like nails).
> Seeing as I met my wife on the phone and proposed (and was accepted)
> before I ever met her, I'll take the fifth on that one.
Met my first wife over real time chat in 1979. Met my current (and final)
wife over rec.arts.comics while she was at Purdue (15+ years ago now...)
> Precisely. I prefer the new 'net, but I admired the old one.
Agreed. Perfect.
> Good point. The problem there is that that those who did take the
> clue were (mostly) invisible, so what was visible was the sudden
> September**3 mass of clue vacuum.
It's the "turkey factor" -- the "turkeys" on a list are a teeny-tiny
minority of these things, but as admin, they drive you crazy, to the point
where it's easy to forget that you have 1,000 people on the list and four of
them you want to kill. That's the ENTIRE issue with noise on a list (or
usenet) and scaling up: if you have a list of 1,000 and four idiots, you can
deal with it, and so can your users. If you have 5,000 and 20 idiots, those
20 idiots will likely make everyone crazy and cause them to leave unless you
can get them under control... But the percentages are the same...
--
Chuq Von Rospach, Internet Gnome <http://www.chuqui.com>
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