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Re: translation needed

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Friday, October 22, 1999, 6:51
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > I have no idea what makes this list so nice, but I'm glad. I figure, > don't question a good thing. :-) >
I've often wondered about it, though. I've been in an awful lot of usenet groups and email lists, and some of them had a 'nice' culture, too. A remarkable fact was that all the nice groups had a not-so-nice counterpart (for instance, rec.games.frp.advocacy used to point to rec.games.frp.misc as a place infested by trolls, before sinder, a troll, came and broke the group). The institution of group rules (like no flaming people's language, saying welcome back to absentees, keeping to basic email etiquette) helps, too - I wonder if this is akin to group rules like those in the TCBS. I think there are some interesting group dynamics to be studied (good old-fashioned tribalism?), and sometimes I wish I was a social scientist - there's easily a PhD in it, maybe even a career. (Imagine little self-help books on getting into e-mail lists ;-) Riches abound!). Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt