Re: New record! More than 1500 postings!

At 13:40 +0200 30.5.1999, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
>On Sun, 30 May 1999, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
>> Sooner or later it had to happen, we've topped the record month of
>> August, 1997! (1465 postings according to egroups) Strictly
>> speaking, May (1539 postings so far) isn't over yet, though I think
>> we can start the celebration now :)
>
>I remember someone on another mailing list who said (well, he wrote
>it) that once a mailing list reaches 100 postings a day (that's 3000
>a month on average) it should really be a newsgroup.
>
>I frequent a few newsgroups that have much less traffic than the
>conlang list; some of those have much the same friendly atmosphere
>(alt.books.deryni for instance).
>
>Should we? I think we shouldn't; we'd only get spam and more
>intrusions from hostile outsiders and people who just visit the
>newsgroup to make fun of it and those who use it.
We should ABSOLUTELY NOT for the very reasons you give.  Besides
"conlang-list" is an inet cultural institution by now;
"whatever.hierarchy.conlang" just doesn't sound right at all!

/BP (who hates usenet...  Not the inhabitants, but the signal-to-noise ratio.)

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