[FoRK] The death of email?

[Stephen D. Williams]

Exactly.  You can't have a conversation with a firehose pointed directly at
you.  Cumulative noise annoyance drowns benefit after a while.

You want the reach of the Internet without having to personally scale to the
scale of the Internet.  Chat is a good example to look at: you may want to
chat with more than one or two people on a particular topic, but more than 30
or so and you can't keep up and it becomes worthless.  (The exact number
depends on send vs. receive ratios, topic type, goals, etc.)

There are ways to deal with this.  Some systems do some of it accidentally. 
Pre/extra Internet systems of people deal with this in various ways, often
throgh merit hierarchies and regionality.

sdw

> On Jan 22, 2008 12:47 AM, Adam L Beberg <beberg at mithral.com> wrote:
>> In the facebook example it was .edu students only, period. Everyone was
>> safe from the kiddies AND the adults.
>
> Is this why Usenet used to be a good place to hang out?
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