list slowdown

Lee Berman · 17 Aug 2010, 02:41 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:41:36 -0400
Subject: (urth) list slowdown
Message-ID: <SNT123-W4508123DCC16A936CF307ACF9C0 at phx.gbl>

While I am sympathetic to Mark Millman's sentiment, I am, in contrast to
James Wynn, not contrite or chastened. In my opinion this current flurry
of activity is temporary and the result of some minor irritant which has 
infected the board and prodded and provoked members into multiple contentious
discussions. 

Soon the topics that have intense interest will decline in number and total postings 
will die down to the handful of posts per day that recent times have seen. 
Moreover I think if we take a yearly average of posts per day for all members it
will compute to rather less than 5 per day even for the most prolific.

>Dave Lebling- I hate to do the "when I was a lad" thing, but in the old days on the 
>list (before Long Sun, before Short Sun, etc.) most of the posts were in 
>the nature of short essays rather than the quick 
>few-lines-added-and-many-quoted that we are seeing lately. People would 
>read them and comment thoughtfully with original content. No doubt my 
>memories are showing the sunsets more beautiful and the leaves more 
>green, but interesting new ideas (like the connection between Greek myth 
>and Silk's life) are lost in the shuffle at the current volume of 
>messages per day.

This sentiment I tend to agree with.

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