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Re: The lists I monitor
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:51:02 -0400
At 03:30 PM 5/7/01 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> The point is just that people aren't going to subscribe to
>every list that gets created - I have enough trouble keeping track of
>the ones I get already - so the result is going to be fragmentation
>rather than diversity.
Hmmm... I thought fragmentation was necessary precondition of diversity.
There seems to be a continuous "there can be only one" thread in
information processing. I suppose I was naive to assume it didn't apply to
mailing lists.
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