[117658] in Cypherpunks
Re: finally done!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Roach)
Wed Sep 8 04:06:57 1999
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:41:50 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
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At 03:27 PM 9/7/99 -0700, Tim May wrote: >
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>At 1:46 PM -0700 1999-09-07, Ryan Lackey wrote: >>
...
>>Interesting games:
>>* Find the oldest and newest posts by a given person; compare
>>* Determine the period of the list (I believe it is 18 months)
>>...
>
>What do you mean by the "period of the list"?
>
>Guess that you mean something about the "average lifetime of
>posters," that is a better description: lifetime. Well-established
>in the physical sciences and population/sociology fields.
>
>If you mean the age of the list, as another definition of "period,"
>then of course it is about 7 years.
I thought he meant the period of time the average subject comes up.
How often the average topic is broached. I guess that is probably
much shorter than a year and a half though.
Sean Roach
P.S. I wrote this one first. Then read the follow up. Responded.
And am now sending this one, which didn't get sent for some reason,
as what I though I was "spouting off" about.
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