I remember reading rec.puzzles occasionally in the day when the Sleeping Beauty question was first posed. Coming back after not reading the group was for a coup

I remember reading rec.puzzles occasionally in the day when the Sleeping Beauty question was first posed. Coming back after not reading the group was for a couple of weeks was incredibly confused because it was full of minor variants of this single question constructed by people to support their position. I'd not only missed the original question and was thus lacking the context completely, but also had missed the megathread that followed and didn't understand the political undercurrents which would have been obvious if I'd only known who was halfer and who a thirder. It was just crazy. Here's a great account of how it unfolded: http://www.maproom.co.uk/sb.html http://www.maproom.co.uk/sb.html