Re: [Nolug] Ron's sig

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:47, Michael Flora wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:48, Michael Flora wrote:
> > > --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:03, Dave Prentice
> > wrote:
[snip]
> This reminds me of an old, OLD song (out of the 1920's
> I think), "I Danced with a Man Who'd Danced with a
> Girl who'd Danced with the Prince of Wales".
>
> The idea of 6 degrees of separation comes from an
> experiment done in the 1960's, IIRC. A scientist
> recruited several people as "targets". He then
> recruited some other people who were total strangers
> to the targets, and asked them to get a message to the
> targets NOT by mailing the message directly to them
> but by giving it to an acquaintance whom they thought
> MIGHT have some knowledge of the targets. The same
> instructions applied to the acquaintances. Turned out
> that for messages that actually reached the targets,
> an average of six steps were required. This does have
> some relevance to computer networks and email
> forwarding, according to a recent article in Science
> News.

Yup, I've heard that, too.

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