Re: Ebb and flow (was Re: Naisek Pages Updated)

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:58:26PM +0200, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> True.  There was more of a "pioneer spirit" in the year 2000,
> which was also when I joined CONLANG.
2000 felt rather set-in-its-ways to me, compared to the mists of the
late Nineties :)  Heck, by 2000 we mostly discussed *human* languages...

> Yet, things weren't really better back then.  The list just
> overflew with off-topic posts; there were usually about 200
> to 400 posts per day, with only about 50 being even marginally
> on topic.  (Or so it felt to me - I never actually counted.)
My first thought in response to this was "If it took 200 to 400 posts
a day to support those 50 a day on-topic posts, it was worth it!"
Imagine, 50 posts of on-topic conlang per day.  But I'm not sure we
ever got quite that voluble.

I opened my biggest-looking 2000 archive, October 2000, and found I'd
kept 2316 messages (I tended to delete only "take me off this list"-level
of irrelevancies, so I have most of the posts).  That's under 100 a day.
As for how many were on-topic... I'm not volunteering to count :)

Now, granted, there was a need at some point for the 100-a-day total
limit...  2003 looks like it was starting to get that busy.  And yes, it
was overwhelming by then.  But I miss it.

[not-Jörg (David?) writes:]

> > Ebb and flow, though.
More ebb than flow, I think.  I don't know how far back into the 90's
we'd have to go to find posting levels comparable to those recently.

I would post something from mirexu or mërèchi, but I haven't written
a word since the relay.

tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda