From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 18:42:53 MDT
The extropians list is sick/dead/dying? Again? Damn, it seems to have been
doing that at least since I joined (mmmm, no, it's not me, really!)
I bet the quality of posts has diminished since the good old days too, is
that right?
LOL!
Emlyn
> On Sunday, April 14, 2002 11:59 AM Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> sentience@pobox.com wrote:
> > The only way I know of to keep a mailing list free of politics and
> > pseudoscience is to moderate it.
> [huge snip]
> > Okay, so I'm not fooling anyone. But I wish to point out that the
> price of
> > an unmoderated list is bucketloads of irrelevant crap, and
> eventually
> the
> > irrelevant crap may drive away the real posters. If so, it doesn't
> mean
> > that Extropy is dead - just that the Extropians list is sick. There
> are
> > other forums; I'd be sad to see this one go, but it isn't the whole
> > transhumanist movement in itself.
>
> I couldn't have said it better myself, though I did say it earlier
> today.:)
>
> Meet you at the Singularity! Of course, I'll be waiting.:)
>
> Dan
> http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
>
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