From: jcoffin{at}taeus.com
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

At 09:22 AM 8/21/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>  * Author: Charles Angelich

[ ... ]

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

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

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

IMO, you have things just about exactly backwards: laziness being what it
is, if it's more difficult to get to the echo, it'll get less
participation.  Lest you should reply that you don't want advice from lazy
people, I'd point you toward:

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

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

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