From: Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko (sasha1@netcom.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 1999 - 14:38:57 MST
Since 1993, there appeared several other lists on the
extropian and transhumanist topics, and a number of people
went there. (see my list of lists at
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/lists.html ).
There has been massive development of extropian and
transhumanist websites since then as well, so people have
alternative means of expressing themselves and obtaining
the materials.
Some people are only on extropian-select, or transhuman,
or polymath lists. I personally receive all, but do not
have much time, especially for arguing the basics.
A few hundred people is all a mailing list as a structure
can bear. I am not even advertising or listing my Lists
page for the fear that it can topple the discussion groups.
If you want to have an active discussion forum with thousands
of people you have to do something special.
Did I ever mention filtering, alternative private moderators,
or anything like that?
If we spent half as much time on active promoting of extropianism
as we spend on debating issues, we would have taken over the Net
by now. At this point, I rarely bother to share the proposals
even, nobody wants to work anyway (please tell me if I am wrong).
Do we want to make a social impact, or we just want to chat?
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Alexander Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com>
Home: <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
Work: <http://intelligenesis.net>
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