On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:05:24PM +0100, Laurens Holst wrote: > Wynke Stulemeijer wrote: > >Heya! > > > >I have noticed that it is really very quiet here recently. Now I do > >not intend to get rid of the list because it's not in anybody's way > >(and all the spam gets filtered out and never reaches anyone but me > >and Maarten), but still, I was wondering if people would actually miss > >it if it were to disappear... > > Yes, definitely. > > > >So, what do you guys think? Will the list still be used in the future? > >And where do people go these days for their MSX news? Not comp.sys.msx > >on Usenet, I think, it seems nearly as dead as the list... Which > >websites do people frequent instead? > > I personally do not read comp.sys.msx, and do not intend to. Everytime I > do, I see few messages I personally find interesting. msx.org *is* a > good resource for MSX-related news, however they do not hesitate to > censor and ban people and thus is not a place open for all.
Hm, I see many people mentioning the list as a fallback for msx.org... The mailinglist is not censored, as long as people don't post html and attachments and such and only post from the address they registered with. > The list may not see as many messages as it has in the past, but it is > still a good place to make public announcements, which will then be > received by many people. If I want to make such an announcement, I write > to msx@stack.nl first, and only after that look at msx.org and > comp.sys.msx. Also, there is still the occasional discussion. Perhaps we should campaign a bit for people to send more announcements to the list again? ;) > With regard to reading the list, I think you have insight in the number > of subscribers and the amount of bounced mails... I'd say pretty much > every mail which arrives at its destination is read (actually, keeping > up with the mailinglist is a lot easier now than it used to be in the > past :)). Certainly. I recently moved all old mails to an archive folder (yeah, I keep them all) and then found that no new ones arrived. I think I get at least 100 spams for every mail posted. But I can discard them all at once, so that's ok. > So, I hope to have banned these evil thoughts from your mind ;p. I didn't intend to get rid of it, I was just wondering how much attention I should keep paying to it. It does seem to run well without looking at it, only the number of posts that do not get through is quite huge so i should probably throw them out weekly or so. It seems like it's much the other way around than when I took over; back then there were hundreds of real mails for every spam... Wynke. _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list (msx@stack.nl) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
