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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs)
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Subject: Re: Is the death of the net coming in Se
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Date: Sat, 14-Jul-84 18:39:00 EDT
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> Right now it's summer, and most schools are on vacation, and a sizable
> percentage of other people are in the same state.  So the net is
> quieter.  Yet it's still growing.  Will the return of all these people,
> plus the usual growth, be the final straw for the net?

I hope not, and I suggest that a certain amount of negative feedback will
prevent it.  When there's too much to read, and it propagates too slowly,
people lose interest, so there *should* be less posted.

Unfortunately, it's already been demonstrated that the equilibrium point
(if it exists) is somewhere way to the right of "nominal".

Alan (another contribution to the problem?) Silverstein