Re: Average open forum message latency

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Joaco thought it a good use of my time to say:
> Monitoring Alan Hicks msg about the pool for
> date of new Slackware release, I was surprised
> that the thread was active for only 3 days.
>
> So I started checking for how long a msg keeps
> getting replies and it seems that the magic number
> for 2 sigma probability (67%) of NOT getting a response
> is about five days.
>
> So I guess, dont bother looking at or expanding any thread
> older than 5 days and you wont miss a thing..
> TonyB


Wow! That was...........informative.

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Le Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:02:27 +0000, Sysiphus a écrit*:

>> So I guess, dont bother looking at or expanding any thread older than 5
>> days and you wont miss a thing.. TonyB
>
>
> Wow! That was...........informative.

Yes, though noticeably not fully righteous if I may
softly surmise ...

Yet, that's globally right; as most of the time I can see people
asking the same question over and over again while their answer,
coldly coiled in some "older than 5 days" post, silently rots.