Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:04:39 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <199706102204.XAA08228@typhoon.dial.pipex.net>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk, memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Dave Pape <davepape@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: URGENT: the Exponential Meme
At 11:28 10/06/97 -0500, Timothy Perper/Martha Cornog wrote:
>The number of memetics messages in my In Box is growing exponentially.
>Soon they will take over dca.net, the net provider my wife and I use, and
>then the entire East Coast of the United States.
Don't worry Tim- I've been on memes mailing lists before. They usually peak
and stabilise at about 110 messages per day, because above that level of
information-absorption people's brains forget how to be brains any more, and
the resulting nervous breakdowns act as a kind of natural valve on the
discourse.
Dave Pape
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