[Buddha-l] Statistics

[d f tweney]

As a former, non-practicing scholar, I appreciate references to sources 
(particularly those in English) far more than anything else I read on 
Buddha-L. If I want personal views, there are plenty of places I can 
look. I come to this forum for educated, informed commentary on 
Buddhism and for a rare chance to hear scholars discussing buddhism, 
often passionately, among themselves. Unfortunately the dialog often 
devolves to long threads that have very little to do with buddhism ... 
but fortunately, these threads are easy to delete.

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On Oct 9, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Chris wrote:

> Actually, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. I have to admit to deleting 
> messages from 'jkirlk'  routinely before I 'process' other messages. 
> Why? Because all too often, messages from 'jkirk' contain extensive 
> transcribed script from third part sources or, URLs to third parity 
> sources. I believe I am quite capable of doing my own research, thank 
> you very much and do not need prejudiced referrals from anyone. I come 
> here to find *original* ideas, not referrals. I would be most anxious 
> and willing to hear of jkirk's personal views on matters discussed in 
> this form as opposed to what she views as relevant opinions of others.
>
> On 10/9/05, Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
>> to look into the archives. Here we are, eight days into October, and
>> already we have six contributors who have sent more that twenty 
>> messages
>>  this month. The most frequent contributors have been:
>>
>> Benito Carral, 30 messages
>> Joy Vriens, 29
>> Chan Fu, 26
>> Richard Hayes, 24
>> Joanna Kirkpatrick, 23
>> Dan Lusthaus, 23
>>
>> Joanna is an academic who loves to write and who, being retired, has
>> time on her hands. I don't know what the hell excuse the rest of us
>> have.
>>
>> An examination of threads in September and October shows that Joanna's
>> messages are not ignored much more than those of anyone else who 
>> writes
>> a lot. I have a hunch that many readers get into the habit of
>> automatically deleting messages from people who write a lot. It's easy
>> to set up a filter to do such things, and I'd bet that just about all
>> subscribers to buddha-l have found ways to send all the messages of
>> their least favorite writers to the junk file.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
>> ***
>> "If you want the truth, rather than merely something to say,
>> you will have a good deal less to say." -- Thomas Nagel
>>
>>
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