From: Hans-Cees Speel <hanss@zondisk.sepa.tudelft.nl>
To: perpcorn@dca.net (Timothy Perper/Martha Cornog), memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:30:50 +0000
Subject: Re: URGENT: the Exponential Meme
Dear Tim
are you aware of the log at
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~majordom/memetics/
If you are you apparently would like another way of having a log?
Because this log has all the mails, so you do not have to keep them
yourself.
I am sorry but what would a usenet group do more? You mean that you
just don't get all the mail?
So what you suggest is to make a alt.mem list to go with this list?
Can you define how excactly to do that? What mail would have to be on
this list, and what on that alt group?
> >You caqn always unsubscribe and just watch the www log of the list.
> >Then ones in a while you can post when you re-subscribe.
>
> TP: True, and if everyone did that, you'd have no memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> listserve. The issue is to handle the increasing popularity of THIS list,
> not to eliminate people or send them someplace else.
>
> >HCS
> >But is there such a problem with the numbers? I expect it will slow
> >down in a while.
> >>
> >>TP
> >> b. we distill some of these discussions for Hans-Cees, so he gets stuff
> >> for JOM.
> >
> >HCS
> >what do you mean?
>
> TP: Just what I said. A number of significant, if not orderly,
> discussions have arisen so far, and at least some of them would make good
> papers.
>
> >
> >HCS
> >There is a newsgroup alt.memetics, you can use it along this list of
> >course.
>
> TP: True. There are some 7000 or more newsgroups I can use. They do not
> solve the question of growing interest in THIS list, and of the increasing
> difficulty of keeping the postings straight. In other words, alt.memetics
> does not solve the problem.
> >
> >
> >> TP
> >> This will allow different people to specialize to their heart's content
> >> without denying anyone the chance to join in (which, IMO, makes private
> >> exchange of emails between participants less than desirable). It will also
> >> let people who feel *excluded* from certain threads join others more to
> >> their liking.
> >
> >HCS
> >let me know if you think there is problem. You can also use
> >alt.memetics of course.
> >
> >hc
>
> TP: I'm not talking about alt. memetics. I am suggesting that a central
> archive of contributions TO THIS LIST be kept somewhere, so subscribers can
> access it, scan it, download a selected few contributions, and answer
> selected postings. As it is, everything is downloaded to everybody, which
> is fine provided the numbers don't grow too large. Hans-Cees says that
> growth will "slow down in a while." At the moment, however, that cost of
> that growth is being passed on to the subscribers, who must save all
> incoming material in their own files (I'm pushing a meg of memory so far).
> Why not keep the postings in a central place and let subscribers access
> what they want?
>
> Alt. memetics has nothing to do with -- nothing at all. I'm talking about
> THIS list, not alt.memetics.
>
> I agree, of course, that the simplest way to handle it is to unsubscribe
> and trash everything from or to memetics@mmu.ac.uk. That's like having too
> many books, so you burn them all.
>
>
>
>
>
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