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heh, heh
Jim Cooper
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:29:01 -0300
From: kid sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: the natural life cycle of mailing lists (fwd)
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THE NATURAL LIFE CYCLE OF MAILING LISTS
Every list seems to go through the same cycle:
1. Initial enthusiasm (people introduce themselves, and gush
alot about how wonderful it is to find kindred souls).
2. Evangelism (people moan about how few folks are posting to
the list, and brainstorm recruitment strategies).
3. Growth (more and more people join, more and more lengthy
threads develop, occasional off-topic threads pop up).
4. Community (lots of threads, some more relevant than others;
lots of information and advice is exchanged; experts help other
experts as well as less experienced colleagues; friendships
develop; people tease each other; newcomers are welcomed with
generosity and patience; everyone---newbie and expert alike---
feels comfortable asking questions, suggesting answers, and
sharing opinions).
5. Discomfort with diversity (the number of messages increases
dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every
reader; people start complaining about the signal-to-noise
ratio; person 1 threatens to quit if *other* people don't
limit discussion to person 1's pet topic; person 2 agrees
with person 1; person 3 tells 1 & 2 to lighten up; more
bandwidth is wasted complaining about off-topic threads
than is used for the threads themselves; everyone gets
annoyed).
6a. Smug complacency and stagnation (the purists flame everyone
who asks an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious
post; newbies are rebuffed; traffic drops to a doze-producing
level of a few minor issues; all interesting discussions happen
by private e-mail and are limited to a few participants; the
purists spend lots of time self-righteously congratulating
each other on keeping off-topic threads off the list).
OR
6b. Maturity (a few people quit in a huff; the rest of the
participants stay near stage 4, with stage 5 popping up briefly
every few weeks; many people wear out their second or third
'delete' key, but the list lives contentedly ever after).
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i must say i laughed uproariously with a certain 'me too' post i saw
today...so it's not just the aol'ers...
kindofobseb: i know lou uses a lot of odd tunings, but do other people here
use them also? i haven't had either of my guitars in standard tuning for at
least two months now...one is just slack-keyed, the other is EAbDbAbAbEb.
god how i love open chords. what are some of the tunings lou and our fellow
listers use?
.joanna.
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andover '94
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ever wonder why it's 'congress' and not 'progress?' fitting, no?
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