"Stan Shebs" shebs@apple.com schrieb:

Heh, that's why I haven't wrote it up on a [[Wikipedia:]] page. But speaking to your examples, I would refine "affects" to mean that which people are conscious of; the recipients of mail are not really aware of the postal carrier, and the maintenance person who fixes a phone switch and thereby enables a million people to make phone calls is still anonymous. Leif affects people via his story, which is taught to millions of students; thus his notability derives from being written about, just as it does for victims of sensational crimes - and voila, things are brought full circle. :-)

I would not use the word 'affect' for something like that. It's more like a measure of how "famous" a person is.

Andre Engels