Petr Kuzmic wrote:
>Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> While I sympathize with the
>> people who said it doesn't really matter if the group is moribund for a
>> period and then springs into life again I think they are mistaken.
>That could be a reference to my saying "let's keep this place a secret" a
>few days ago. I should clarify that this was an (apparently too feeble)
>attempt at humor [I admit it: sarcasm].
No, it wasn't. (As with virtually all of your postings, I found nothing to
disagree with, and I realized this was written with your tongue in your
cheek (as of course was my original suggestion to let the group die a
natural death: the aim was to get some of the secret btk-mca'ers to come
out of the closet))
I was more thinking of Elisabeth Bull Dae's comment that
>It is actually good that we don't have to much activity, because when you
>get a mail from this group once in a while you actually read it. If it was
>long postings every day, it would quickly become overwhelming and it would
>not be time to read all of it. Quality is always better than quantity!
and I think there were others similar. I don't have the impression that
these were intended humorously. What I meant was that while I understand
Elisabeth's opinion I think a group cannot survive letting its level of
activity fall too low. Look at the AMYLOID group, for example, which serves
people interested in Alzheimer's. In January 1998 it has had a total of
zero messages posted. Does this mean that there aren't any researchers
interested in Alzheimer's? No, it surely means that the level of activity
has fallen so low that such people go somewhere else to exchange views. The
AMYLOID group is moderated, but a similar case that is not moderated is
JRNLNOTE. This had a ragbag of around ten postings in January, of which one
is more or less serious but not relevant to the group, and the others are
spam. (They don't even have a miniFAQ and Fundraiser to keep them amused).
Athel
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