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Number   :  16
Date     :  2001-05-12
Author   :  Jim Witherspoon
Subject  :  Re: A though on the Yahoo Discussion Group
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Hi Kan,

You're certainly right, a lot of the discussion groups are very inactive!

I notice we're up to 27 members here, I'd say that's a pretty good start.
Good job Kan! I think there is some reluctance to join discussion groups.

Just as an example, I belong to an Ecco Pro discussion group - you may
remember that is a PIM that was discontinued in 1997, but still has a
die-hard following. There are 466 members in that group, and 207 messages
were posted for the month of April, or about 7 a day on average. The flow
of messages varies, but that is a pretty successful group.

I think for software like this, people will have questions or ideas as they
use the software, and the group could be successful even if we don't have
too many members, or very frequent posts, so long as it is useful to the
members.

One thing for everyone to remember - the messages go into a searchable
archive, so if you have a question, you can search the archives and maybe
the question will already be answered in an earlier message!

jim

> Folks:
>
> While I am watching the mass emailing procedure firing an email
> every 15 seconds or so (not to burden the smtp server), I was
> checking the peer discussion groups in the Yahoo Groups.
>
> This is to assess the chance of this discussion group to be
> successful. If other groups's histories are of any indication,
> I was rather shocked by the dismal performance by other groups.

> Although there could be a few more, I did not pick any group
> which was started this year (too new to evaluate). Otherwise,
> the above six groups are pretty much all out of the 600 plus
> groups. That's 1 in 100 chance of long term survival!
>
> The most impressive one is the The cubase which might be a model
> for our group.
>
> Cubase http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cubase
>
> With the very large membership, about twenty posts are made
> every day. But, even the 2nd in this list, xosl with about three
> posts a day is a respectable case.
>
> I suppose the moral is it's easy for anyone to start a discussion
> group. But, its only 1 in 100 that can claim any success. This
> word is not just for Jim who started this group. But, every member
> of the group must be actively involved to make this group worthwhile.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Kan Yabumoto
> 



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