[117645] in Cypherpunks
Re: finally done!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Tue Sep 7 20:42:42 1999
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 17:20:14 -0700
To: Ryan Lackey <ryan@venona.com>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 3:47 PM -0700 1999-09-07, Ryan Lackey wrote:
>Quoting Tim May <tcmay@got.net>:
>>
>> What do you mean by the "period of the list"?
>
>I meant time it takes for each of the major topics to be covered, then
>forgotten, and brought up again. Certain topics seem to come up fairly
>regularly, somewhere between every year and every 2 years.
>
>This might be lifetime of ideas, if you consider the ideas to be the
>population rather than the posters being the population; my knowledge
>of political science/sociology is pretty minimal.
OK, now I understand your meaning. Might have been better had you said "the
average period of ideas being discussed."
Anyway, I think 18 months is too long an estimate. It seems to me that the
_main_ topics, at least the mostly technical ones, come up every few
months. Of course, some topics we used to discuss no longer come up at all,
lost in the speculations about Microsoft and the debates about RNGs.
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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