Andrew Bowden wrote:
It's also got to be said that the majority of people on a mailing list don't post. I don't know the stats for this list, but I'm on a mailing list of 300 people, about 20 of which post regularly. There's a lot of readers, and occassionally some of them post, but mostly it's reading. Why do people join a list and not post? Well to get the signal. So if there's very little signal, you lose your incentive to remain a reader.
Indeed, I've got about 400 unread messages lasting back ages because no-one talks about, you know, XML and APIs anymore. So I don't bother to read, so I'm missing the signal, and it just makes me feel this list isn't cared for.
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