Re: CHAT: More enter-bringings

Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> 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).
>
If I was here you could have made it two. ;-).

Actually, off topic issue flare-ups are always fun, but I go with the
mainstream view on the list all too often.

> Matt.
No, I'm pretty sure my name is Robert. :o)

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Robert