RE: virus: Swollen Ranks

Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:14:19 -0800

Dave Pape wrote:

<<Wasn't there some mythical golden age when mailing lists and newsgroups
were allegedly less hierarchical than they are now? >>

Mythical, maybe. In real life? Doubtful. I started one of the first global mailing lists in 1979: SF-LOVERS. Even then there was a clear hierarchy. It's a function of being human, I think, not of the list milieu.

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