Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:43:37 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Metro Accident
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Indeed!  There's even a filk by Jo Walton:
http://barb.velvet.com/humor/lurkers.html

mjw

>>> Stan Field <e.c.field at gmail.com> 6/25/2009 2:13 PM >>>
Hey! Lurking is an old and treasured internet tradition.

Stan

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Michael Walsh<mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 6/24/2009 8:07 PM >>>
>>"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>>>> Since it appears that most subscribers won't bother to reply
>>
>>> But if they were one of the dead, they wouldn't be.
>>
>>The idea is for the living to reply. =A0But from the response, are we
>>to conclude that 40 of the 44 people on this list -- everyone except
>>you, Tamar, Stan, and myself -- were among the 9 people killed?
>
> Based on the last many months of your "This list is X months old" there =
=
> are but a few of us who regularly reply. =A0Most seem to be listening =
in,=
 =
> ears pressed tightly on the internet wall.
>
> mjw
>