Off-topic thoughts on mailing lists

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>> I must say it is encouraging to see all the "fresh faces" =

> on the list who are actively posting.

The list still hovers at just under the 1000 mark as it has =

for a long time.  Somehow the present crop is more vocal
which is great!<

Even so, it's a little frustrating to know that there's 1000 people on
board when virtually all of the discussion is among about two dozen of th=
em
at most. I had an even worse situation on a website my company runs --
dozens of requests came in for a mailing list type discussion; I set it u=
p;
hundreds subscribed, eventually almost 2000; six people contributed notes=

over the next several months after much begging and pleading from me. Whe=
n
I shut the thing down after determining that over 99% of all messages had=

come from me, pleading for SOMEBODY to contribute SOMETHING I got at leas=
t
a dozen angry notes accusing me of "censorship" -- more notes than were
written to the list in the whole time it was up! The Internet, it is a ve=
ry
strange place!


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