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Re: Memberships - so many people I don't know
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:03:45 GMT
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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 06:16:53 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:
> Second, LUGNET can support far greater overall traffic levels than RTL (it
> can have much more traffic without it becoming a problem.) Over recent
> weeks, for example, LUGNET as a whole has averaged more than 400 messages
> per day on weekdays and about 300 messages per day on weekends. Now
> obviously a single group *could* have that much traffic per day all by
> itself -- and I've actually seen single groups on Usenet averaging 1800
> messages per day! -- but there's no way that a single group getting that
misc.jobs - 102754 unread messages. Download (Y/N)?
And indeed, the effect you mention is visible there. There are no
human readers anymore.
> Finally, it's an awkward stage we're in at the moment: traffic and posting
> levels are still only about 2x what RTL was at its peak in the summer of
> 1998 -- and that's still small enough to look at it all and say, hey, what's
> up with my not meeting more people in the groups I read? But before you
> know it, someday there will be 1000 messages per day here, then someday
> 2000, and someday (maybe a long way off) 5000. When levels reach that
> point, now just about *everyone* will be someone you haven't met yet. At
> some point in fact it will become literally impossible for any one person to
> read every single article posted to the system, and that's a critical-mass
> perception issue. I figure it's about another 2x from where we are now
> before that happens, which makes it about 8x from where things started a
> year ago when things here were still pretty quiet.
300 messages per day is highly doable, 600 is a lot but still
possible, and for a 1000 messages per day you need a dedicated
full-time job _and_ hobby doing it. More is impossible.
Jasper
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