Re: Is the list dead, the server down or what?
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 4, 2007, 2:30 |
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On May 3, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
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> The Yahoo special topic conlang spin-off lists were initially created
> due to very high traffic on this list (we hit 100 mails a day back
> then). Would you think it is a good idea to unite again to get some
> on-topic posts here? All of the conlang Yahoo lists are very quiet
> these days.
Does anyone have ideas about what happened to the list's popularity?
Did a lot of members leave, or do they just lurk now? (I know I don't
see a lot of the names I saw back around 1999.)
(I've seen other online communities I've been involved in dwindle and
die, and I've always been very interested in the idea of a written
history of those communities, including accounting for their decline,
and where the people ended up. Unfortunately, I'm no historian, and I
don't know how to get ahold of those people anymore, so it probably
won't happen. I'm not saying Conlang is dying though; just wanted to
share a feeling I've had for a while.)
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