Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: The Dynamics of Debate on USENET Message-ID: <6389@ficc.uu.net> Date: 2 Oct 89 19:27:57 GMT References: <35037@apple.Apple.COM> <147@isgtec.UUCP> <35097@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 13 In article <35097@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >> Interestingly, USENET debates have a property that doesn't exist with >>face-to-face debates: multiple participants separated by huge temporal delays. I think the posting of articles saying stuff that has already been said is caused by people responding before reading all the messages in the group. This is particularly unfortunate when done by 'rn' users, for whom the 'm' command will make interesting articles come back and, after viewing all the relevant articles, these users can then make a decision as to whether or not to post. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first." -- Pascal