On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, William T Goodall wrote:
> An email list represents the bazaar model of idea exchange. One can > simply ignore threads of discourse one isn't interested in and killfile > those that are irrelevant or pointless. Any more complicated model with > ratings, peer trust networks, relevancy association or whatnot is > placing faith in the idea someone else's algorithm can sort interesting > from bullshit better than oneself. And this is what I like about mailing lists. I tend to read every. single. post (so I'm not subscribed to as many lists as I *might* be), especially the ones I'm a moderator for (and one of the others is deathly dull, but I have to keep an eye out for anything illegal, which has been a problem once or twice), but also for the others. Eventually I work out how much weight to give a particular poster on a particular subject, and have the values for that in my head. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l