From: Hal Dunn (johngalt@digital.net)
Date: Wed Apr 23 1997 - 20:33:02 MDT
>From: Anders Sandberg <nv91-asa@nada.kth.se>
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:07:05 +0200 (MET DST)
>Subject: Re: "urban legend awareness" meme
>> My theory is that the
>> Internet has also facilitated the spread of the "Here's something else that
>> didn't really happen" meme.
>
>That may be because refutations can spread much more quickly. Rumor
>epidemics usually last until a refutation meme is spread. On the net,
>refutations quickly appear (their hosts often engaging the legend hosts in a
>flamewar), so net.legends that doesn't pretend to be true (and hence
>cannot be refuted) have a higher fitness.
YES! This is exactly what I was thinking.
Hal Dunn
johngalt@digital.net
http://www.grubbworm.com/sludge
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