Hi gang! If it's any interest to y'all, I just closed out my 2005 archive of list posts. The total number of messages I see is 10070, or an average of about 28 per day...
This is down about 10% from last year, and a lot lower than the 14000- some posts per year at the peak back about 2001, I think. The list membership hovers at just over 600, as it has for at least a year now. There were only 113 when I inherited the list from Gary Hawkins back in early 1998. I've normally run the list a bit looser on subject control than some folks want it, admitting that the inevitable stream of "What can I do for..." -type questions are, in fact, an important part of what we do. This comes at a price for those on dial-up connections, and for people who are on short rations time and energy-wise due to illness or coping with the illness of a loved-one. So, please observe the list rules and etiquette so that you will enforce on yourselves the discipline that will keep the list in the best shape possible: Naturally, any CS related topic is fine. Any questions about health related issues are fine and may be answered, whether the answer involves CS or not. Non-CS-related answers should be covered briefly, in just enough depth to satisfy basic curiosity and point out essential resources so folks may follow up on the topic themselves. Detailed or extended off-topic discussions should be taken to the Off Topic List, private e-mail, or other forums. A reasonable amount of off-topic chatter, humor, friendly asides, etc., is okay, so long as you are considerate and keep it to a low level. You should turn off fancy text formatting and graphics and delete as much of the text you are responding to as you can and still leave a hint of the context of your reply. Minimize one-liner replies like "Thank you" and "Me too!" Wait 'til multiple replies arrive and thank everyone at once. Send requests for things people offer directly to their private e-mail address rather than to the entire list... and so on. These are thoughtful things we all can do to cut down on traffic and keep things reasonably focused. I'm pretty satisfied with the volume and tone of our conversations, most of the time. I will step in to bring things into line, but understand that it is you, as individuals, who can best moderate your own activity. I like the people in this group. I'm glad you're all a part of my life. I wish you well in this new year. May 2006 be good to each of us. Mike D. List owner dude! [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
