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Message no. 1
From: Iridios <iridios@*********.COM>
Subject: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:10:36 -0400
Geoff Morochnick wrote:
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:27:59 -0400

> Gurth said:
>
> > > How about 1998 TOLM WAPPERS?
> >
> > Those are the lurkers, who are not necessarily the same as the T-
> > shirt buyers.
>
> Hey! I post infrequently enough to be a verified lurker, but I'm buying a
> shirt! Fie upon thee, for casting aspersions on lurkers!
>
> Standing up for the rights of lurkers everywhere, while scurrying back to
> lurk-land

I'm new to the list, so I am wondering what qualifies as a lurker? I post
infrequently myself, often because I have nothing useful to say that hasn't
been said already. I believe in the old adage "Better to remain silent and be
thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."

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--"Any science, sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:15:10 +0100
Iridios said on 23:10/20 Jun 98,...

> I'm new to the list, so I am wondering what qualifies as a lurker? I post
> infrequently myself, often because I have nothing useful to say that hasn't
> been said already. I believe in the old adage "Better to remain silent and be
> thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."

A lurker is simply anyone who posts infrequently or not at all,
being content to read the mail the list generates without replying
to it (as opposed to people like, for instance, me, who feel the
need to hit Reply even when they're reading through 5-year-old
logs :)

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Message no. 3
From: The Baxters <baxter@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:59:37 -0500
> > Standing up for the rights of lurkers everywhere, while scurrying
back to
> > lurk-land
>
> Iridios responded:
> I post
> infrequently myself, often because I have nothing useful to say that
hasn't
> been said already. I believe in the old adage "Better to remain
silent and be
> thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."

I must agree with Iridios. I find that it takes a while for me to
read thru
the list and most of the time, I will read an answer that already says
what
I would have said. So, I guess, my not taking up bandwidth with
repeating
things qualifies me as a lurker. :-)

Termite
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Message no. 4
From: John E Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:30:11 -0500
Gurth wrote:
>
> Iridios said on 23:10/20 Jun 98,...
>
> > I'm new to the list, so I am wondering what qualifies as a lurker? I post
> > infrequently myself, often because I have nothing useful to say that hasn't
> > been said already. I believe in the old adage "Better to remain silent and
be
> > thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."
>
> A lurker is simply anyone who posts infrequently or not at all,
> being content to read the mail the list generates without replying
> to it (as opposed to people like, for instance, me, who feel the
> need to hit Reply even when they're reading through 5-year-old
> logs :)

And it showed in the list statistics last fall:)
Personally, I think that I'm (mostly) lurking around here at the moment
(compared to my record from the last year and a half, I'm being friggin'
silent:) because I'm not replying to stuff on the list more than once or
twice a week (while I used to average around four messages per day:)

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Message no. 5
From: Marcin Serkies <yasiu@***.NET.PL>
Subject: Re: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:56:52 +0200
The Baxters wrote: I must agree with Iridios. I find that it takes a
while for me to

> read thru
> the list and most of the time, I will read an answer that already says
> what
> I would have said. So, I guess, my not taking up bandwidth with
> repeating
> things qualifies me as a lurker. :-)

Welcome in the club ;) My previous presence on the list (about year ago)
was more active but now there is no good subject for me to discuss. Well
these subject are interesting etc. but i don`t have to say anything about
them.. so i`m silent.

Yasiu
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Message no. 6
From: "Leszek Karlik, aka Mike" <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject: Re: Lurkers [Was Re: May I have the envelope please...]
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:50:46 GMT
On 21 Jun 98 10:15:10 GMT, gurth@******.NL (Gurth) disseminated foul capitalist
propaganda by writing:

[...]
>A lurker is simply anyone who posts infrequently or not at all,
>being content to read the mail the list generates without replying
>to it (as opposed to people like, for instance, me, who feel the
>need to hit Reply even when they're reading through 5-year-old
>logs :)

How about people who lurk around while replying to very old posts? (Like, one
month old? ;))).

Leslie ;->>
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