From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 14:18:07 MDT
On 2002.05.28, Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
>
> But that's not the reason for it; hard disks are cheap. The posting
> limit is a simple quality measure. On all mailing lists of this type,
> it is not uncommon for the quality of posts to be in direct inverse
> proportion to their quantity. That is, those who post many messages
> per day often post lots of fluff. The limit is simply to make those
> persons think harder about which topics and comments are really
> important, and which are better left alone.
>
> It's a poor metric, but it's better than none.
I thought the Extropian mailing list was an online community of
Extropians.
Does such an online community exist, where the mailing list's
purpose is to serve for general chatter amongst Extropians without
regard for "list quality"?
I've been on another mailing list since late 2000 that averages
between 50-100 messages a day, some chatter and some serious
conversation and I've read probably 95% of the messages that
come across that list. There is zero moderation that goes on
there and the list does great.
The extropians@extropy.org list, according to the mailing list
archives for 1Q02 (which is missing March, and 2Q02 is entirely
missing) shows that the list saw around 2100 messages in 01/2002
and around 1550 messages in 02/2002. Going back to 4Q01, it
appears that 12/2002 saw around 2000 messages and 11/2002 saw
1600 messages.
In comparison, the other list I'm on (which I don't want to
mention the name of) saw:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2002 2495 1470 2395 3149 2020
2001 2121 1635 2020 1673 1459 1626 1442 2907 1672 2465 1543 1210
Not a light amount of traffic -- comparable to the
extropians@extropy.org list -- list membership is open to the
public and any member can post to the list.
There are plenty of tangential conversations that run between
people on the list all the time. Once someone mentions that
it's off-topic, it usually gets taken off the list, or dragged
back on-topic.
Whatever. Not my list anyway, so what do I care. I'm just
curious if there is a seperate mailing list that's set up as
an unrestricted and unmoderated online community where Extropians
gather and exchange ideas or otherwise _be people_ and communiate with
one another about things that interest and/or concern them. If so,
please point me to it. Or, don't. I'll survive.
-- Dossy
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Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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