Are we gatewayed to Usenet

Never.  I don't _ever_ want to see this made into a
'semi-private' mailing list.  Extropians, for example,
does this, and it's ended up being an incestuous,
closed group, with extremely low signal-to-noise
ratio; as the same groups of people chatter and 
blather about the same subjects to no end.

I'd rather have the list the way it is.  At least
the noise is usually _new_ noise; and new signal
comes in constantly.

I even prefer it with L. Detweiler; perhaps he'll
cease his rather garbled rants and return
to being a constructive poster.

In any case, if this sort of thing were ever to be put to
a vote, I'd be emailing everyone I knew not to have anything
to do with such a giddy, doomed proposal.
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Robert W. F. Clark                   PGP Key Available Upon Request
rclark@nyx.cs.du.edu
clark@metal.psu.edu

Clark Reynard says:
> Never.  I don't _ever_ want to see this made into a
> 'semi-private' mailing list.  Extropians, for example,
> does this, and it's ended up being an incestuous,
> closed group, with extremely low signal-to-noise
> ratio; as the same groups of people chatter and 
> blather about the same subjects to no end.

The participants would say that they have a very high signal to noise
ratio. The fact that you didn't like the signals and would prefer
different ones means you were not suited to the interests discussed on
that list, not that the experiment has not been a success.

Perry