From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 11:32:14 MDT
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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