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Re: New record! More than 1500 postings!

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, May 31, 1999, 17:16
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.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...> Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)