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Hello Jerry - 

CA>> Inertia being the most common human trait users who need
CA>> expend no effort to receive the echo messages along with
CA>> their other email messages are not motivated to write
CA>> replies. They "lurk". 

JC> The logic here looks pretty weak to me -- at very best. 

My comment is not an attempt to formulate a logic equation. It
is an observation, not a general purpose template for 'life'. 

JC> Back in the days when I ran a point, and Binkley picked up
JC> my messages automatically, I expended, if anything,
JC> substantially less effort on picking up and replying to
JC> messages than I do today. Somehow, I still managed to write
JC> a pretty fair amount though. 

"Back in the days" only had an effect at that time. The effect
in more recent times is that lurkers want to customize FIDO to
accomodate their lurking and I do not.

JC> IMO, you have things just about exactly backwards: laziness
JC> being what it is, if it's more difficult to get to the
JC> echo, it'll get less participation. 

A million monkeys with a million crayons is not a real-world
solution, it's just a bit of humor. 

JC> Lest you should reply that you don't want advice from lazy
JC> people, I'd point you toward: 

"Laziness" is not the same as "inertia". Messages in the echo
are not intended to be a contest. 

JC> www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html 

JC> It may have originated with the PERL world, but many of the
JC> basic ideas apply equally (if not more) to C programming. 

The ideas expressed at that URL would be more appropriate for a
matchbook cover. 

What may or may not have existed "in the days" is gone. We all
have a past, some of us _only_ have a past. 

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