META: Long messages *good* (WAS: SETSIs)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 18:47:42 MDT

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"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> That's the problem with this group... Try to be brief and you
> get crucified... [I'm not sure if the converse -- Try to be complete
> and the message gets long and ends up DELed -- is true or not.] :-)

I can only speak for myself, but the likelihood of my deleting a message
is *inversely* proportional to its length.

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