John Williams wrote: > >> Hard to know if the quiet was due to trolling or some externality. > > It looks to me like this email list is usually quiet because the vast > majority of the members have self-selected so that they have many of > the same opinions. You do not get many interesting discussions that > go "X is good." "I agree". "Me too". "Count me in". "+1". > I agree.
But, seriously, mailing lists are dying. It seems that as time goes by, _less_ people knows how to reply in an adequate format, quoting relevant parts and trimming the message to the necessary minimum. Top-posting is a plague much worse than trolling; if I were <s>world dictator</s> list administrator I would not ban anyone for an occasional trolling, but I would ban for top-posting. Also, it seems that everybody loves blogs, even He seldom comes here but is active in His blog - what's the point of a Brin-l list that does not discuss anything Brin-related? And young people don't use e-mail; they prefer those awful MSNs, Orkuts, Facebooks, etc. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
