MB> FM> 2.  We're all waiting for somebody to post the first message.
MB> WE> I've been in this echo for quite awhile tho not as long as you.  Any
MB> WE> idea where that first message went?  I can't find it.
MB> FM> I have it stuffed in my sock for safe keeping!!
MB> WE> So what is the First Message? -)  Why wasn't it posted?
MB> WE> By now it's too late for it to be the first message anyway.
MB> You must be one of those who think that there had to be a First Message.
MB> There is no concrete evidence that there ever was such a thing as a
MB> First Message in the first place, and unless someone is able to observe
MB> such a thing, then there can be no proof at all of its existing.  ;-)
Aha!  Post-Modernism rears its ugly head!  All we need to do is
perform a careful word count and analysis of recent archives.
As the word count changes, working backwards in time, it will slowly
converge on the probable content of the First Message.  Of course,
we can never know the _exact_ nature of the FM event, but in science
you have to accept the fact that statistical and probabilistic
knowledge is sometimes all you can know.
There are some cranks who claim that the FM could have been just
something like "Hey Arnie, did you get this?"  Even creationists
reject this because surely, they say, the FM must have had more
meaning.  But science rejects it because those who profess it
do not use big Latin words to name things.
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