Petr asked:
>why do you think the traffic here is so low these days?
>
I wish I knew. There are lots of interesting things to discuss, especially
during a time of recovering interest in metabolism with all the current
talk about the metabolome etc., but somehow people don't seem inclined to
raise them on the news group. We once had a discussion leader (maybe we
still do, in theory), but I don't think he's posted anything since I
started following the group around five years ago.
Two other comments. I have noticed a significant drop in activity in the
past year or so in most of the other Bionet groups that I look at, so maybe
it's just a specific example of a broader trend.
The other thing I noticed is that there was a sharp drop in activity after
we stopped getting idiot questions about the second law of thermodynamics.
(A drop in all kinds of activity, not just activity related to the second
law of thermodynamics). I suspect that although a lot of us were irritated
by those questions they also stepped up interest in the group as a whole. I
wouldn't want to send a "come back, all is forgiven" letter off to
Bulgaria, but I think there probably does need to be some regular stimulus
to keep people interested.
athel
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