[ExI] lists going quiet, was: RE: list test

[MB]

spike wrote:
>
> MB, are you taking into account that many of your hippest
> hipsters whose
> commentary ignites the biggest online discussions are
> migrating over to
> darknets?

To be honest I think so much more information is readily
available now (online) that various lists have not so much
purpose, but the connection of the people involved in
certain interests remains important.

In one case, the list is for researchers, students, and
medical personnel whose focus is venomous creatures.  In
the past the list owner (medical research) kept things
hopping, but he died unexpectedly in a surgical situation.
 Now instead of a consistent medium-low stream of
information, discussion and conversation, there are
occasional very small flurries of questions and answers or
comments on some news item.

I am not a researcher, student, or medical person and am
not in any position to present new material. I merely keep
an eye out for spammers, screen new members, bits of list
cleanup.  It saddens me to see the list stutter into
silence.

Regards,
MB

> I never worried much about privacy.  The most illegal
> thing I have ever done
> is to rip a tag off of a pillow I bought.  But now a prole
> becomes an enemy
> of the state for holding the opinion that we are Taxed
> Enough Already.
> Holding that opinion has become the new crime, and the
> government is
> apparently legally able to target those who hold it.
>
> I can see where people will quietly disappear from any
> forum that can be
> read by any government.
>
> spike