Re: Farewell to UT's vectorlist

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:39:23 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>> > In any case, everyone needs to know that there was no ill feelings
>> > anywhere on my part. I had an overwhelming number of requests (18 so far)
>> Tee-Hee. That's pretty funny. Right before its demise, there
>> were about 175 people subscribed to the list. 18/175 = 10.3% Not an
>> overwhelming majority by any means. Most people forget that the concept
>> of the "Silent Majority" is generally valid.
>
>Make that "overwhelming majority of the non-lurkers".
>
>> Starting a "rogue vectorlist" sealed the fate of both vectorlists,
>> IMHO. You've not solved anything.
>
>Time will tell.
>
>> Even when my personal situations sort themselves out, I,
>> personally will not subscribe to your list, strictly on principle.
>
>Makes no difference to me.
>
>> > ran the list. Right now there are 62 listmembers on the
>> > vectorlist@synthcom.com - How many were on the old list?
>> 175. You're about 1/3 of the way there.
>
>92 Now. Not too bad for a mailing list not 24 hours old.

Uh, this is not really a new list, just a name change (there's no old list!).

I'd be more concern about the number of people you might lose during the name
change rather than the absolute number of subscribers. Not that it makes a
difference it's just a name change, with a few new rules to allow for more
spam.

-Zonn
Received on Thu Jan 13 11:50:27 2000