Re: Any suggestions? - newsgroups

["John M" <***>]

Tim,
you have to get to know the biology of lists. Un lively groups a thread
starts to proliferate - skewed into different and even more different
topical corners, everybody happily regurgitating hisher own favorites. No
concern about the topic, they just click Reply and write a differen thing.
If a moderator activates topics to orfer, they die. There were atempts on
the 3-4 Psych lists, unsuccessfully.
It is high time to invent the internet as a live construct which has its own
sexlife. The joke that comes to mind (sorry: they do to me about
everything):
The colonel orders the sergeant to command something for the platoon. He
bends to the ear of the first man and whispers in.
Colonel: What was that? I ordered the move for everyone! Sergeant: Sir, it
will spread, believe me.
If a topic is interesting to a lot of people, it will spread without
artificial PR. If not, you can do anything in vain.
The other point is the tide of interest. There are surge-times and low tide
spells. Like in highway traffic. Or economy.

Best regards
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Gwinn" <***>
To: <***>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Any suggestions? - newsgroups


> I've not found any usenet newsgroups that were either already discussing
> Rosennean ideas or that seemed like useful venues to discuss them. Usenet
> groups are usually wild and wooly, spam attractors,and not terribly
focused,
> especially since they are usually completely unmoderated. They are
> essentially wide open bulletin boards, where anybody can write anything.
>
> I had seen those older references to your father's name on some groups.
But,
> in looking at the current threads on those groups, it just did not seem
like
> a very useful or efficient forum for discussing his work. Some possible
> groups were 'sci.systems', 'bionet.info-theory'. But, it seems like it
would
> be difficult to get alot of coherent discussion going, with such a high
> 'noise-to-signal ratio' on usenet.
>
> Google Groups Help (http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html) says
> that their archives go back 20 yrs! I'm not sure how many messages or
> threads are usually stored on individual usenet news servers.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of Judith
> > Rosen
> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:09 AM
> > To: ***
> > Subject: Fw: Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > > One other question I have for the list members is: Does anyone have
> > > suggestions as to which newsgroup lists are worth subscribing to from
a
> > > Rosennean perspective? I have only just recently discovered
> > this dimension
> > > to the google universe and when I ran a search on my father's
> > name in that
> > > dimension, a ton of completely different stuff from all that
> > I've seen up
> > to
> > > now came up. But the group names are so bizarrely varied (what were
they
> > > talking about my father for on "alt.tibetan.meditation"???) that I am
a
> > bit
> > > lost. What's more, some of the posts are from as lsong ago as1993! How
> > long
> > > do these things live on the internet? Anyway, I would appreciate any
> > > information the list can shed on the way these groups differ from
> > discussion
> > > lists such as this one and how they work. Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Judith
> > > Website address: http://www.rosen-enterprises.com/
> > >