Re: CHAT: More enter-bringings

Robert Hailman wrote:

>Is this one of those 10 year old lists with like 6000
>members, but only 3 or 4 post regularly? I'm signed up to one of those.
>It's like I'm watching a rather dry conversation between a few people
>who don't really like eachother.
As Nik said, there are about 150-200 current and former subscribers,
with a constantly shifting 'core' group of regular posters, and a large
number of lurkers.  The list has been around for quite a long time,
as these things go:  I joined a little over seven years ago, and it was
already well-established by then.  It's mostly an extremely friendly
list, with the odd (in both senses) flare-up on some completely off-
topic issue.  (The most recent such flare-up centred on the question
of whether feminists are evil thought-police out to destroy the
traditional family, with all but one participant expressing the opinion
that no, actually, they're not).

Matt.