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- From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
- Subject: Astounding* observations on this newsgroup:
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- Organization: Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:31:22 GMT
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- (* To me, at least.)
-
- 1. The INCREDIBLE amount of traffic it has generated in a very short
- period of time;
-
- 2. The fact that such a high fraction of the readership, or at least
- the "postership," seems to be of East Indian origin -- though this
- makes sense, on reflection;
-
- 3. The fact that many readers seem to be able to respond to queries by
- giving the whole plot of some story or novel. I forget the whole plot
- within ten minutes of finishing the damn thing, and when I pick up a
- new one it usually doesn't dawn on me that I've read it before until
- I'm about three quarters of the way into it.
-
- -P.
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