Message-Id: <199706102220.SAA23523@global.dca.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:21:49 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: perpcorn@dca.net (Timothy Perper/Martha Cornog)
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
Love it.
Tim
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