From: O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 19:16:11 MDT
Between 11 May 99 (start of property rights fiasco) and 4 June 99
inclusive (minus the odd message that
I might have accidentally deleted):
Posts with "guns" in the subject: 293
Posts with "property rights" in the subject: 257
Total Posts: 1374
Between 28 May 99 (random closer date) and 4 June 99
Posts with "guns" in the subject: 292
> Posts with "property rights" in the subject: 149
Total Posts: 716
Today (4 june only)
Posts with "guns" in the subject: 25
Total Posts: 77
* 4 June is not all of 4 June, but up till when I wrote this post.
These coarse criteria have missed a lot of posts on the same (futile)
subjects. But the signal to noise is getting worse: I think that the
signal to noise is getting worse too.
Now I'm all for noise, otherwise I'd be mute. However, this is getting
too horrible and dull: as much as I love a bit of abuse between two
strangers (who will forget the first appearance of "fucking nimrod" in
the guns posts) even I can't get excited by the guns messages anymore.
I'm using the following scan for interesting posts:
Anything by Gina Miller
Anything by Anders
Anything by Eliezer
Anything by Damien Broderick (come on aussie)
Anthing by anyone that I know/suspect has written a book (includes most
og the above?)
And anyone who puts up interesting ideas (Jeff Davis? All the people who
put abstracts / links to websites up), lots of others, sorry to leave
you all out).
Subjects that don't have "re:" on the front
messages in a thread (ie: re) for which the original message I read from
above.
Or anything which catches my eye as I (very quickly) skip over the rest.
Damn, I don't think I made my own list
Emlyn
The N in S/N
Resolved to try a bit harder
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