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Number   :  95
Date     :  2001-05-19
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: A thought about this group.
Size(KB) :  2


At 2001-05-19 17:17, Dwayne Reid wrote:

Hi there, Kan.

>My feeling, based upon most of the other lists that I am a member of, is
>that this group will have a few regular posters (such as yourself and Jim)
>and a lot of lurkers.
>
>This is normal!

Hello Dwayne:

Nice to hear from you. Your name is quite familiar to me and your post
gave me a reassurance that my second mass-emailing (which I described
as a disaster) at least had one positive result. As I said, getting
a warning letter from the ISP and being called as a spammer was
something I did not expect...

Dan's and your comments are quite encouraging and I might just
relax a little more.

>Don't be discouraged by a low number of posts each day. I would much
>rather be a part of a low volume list with high quality information than
>have to weed through hundreds of messages with little or no benefit.
>As far as total number of members is concerned, that will improve over
>time. The piclist (where I posted a copy of your invitation to me) is now
>over 1800 members. But it too started out small and has taken 6 or 7 years
>to reach its current size.

The thrust of my message today was that everyone assumes that
the membership count will go up by itself. I am challenging to
that notion. I will not do a Mass Emailing for this group. That
is for sure. And I repeat my skepticism for an automatic increase
in the membership that is the only concern I have with this group.
The contents of the group so far are excellent.

What is the basis for your optimism that the group will grow all by
itself? I agree with you that lurker are welcome. We should all
feel good that our message are reaching to thousands of lurkers.

Let me rephrase my question:

"how are you guys planning to increase the lurker population?"

I have argued that there is hardly any external mechanism to increase
the subscriber population. Of course, I concede that I have little
experience in this kind of discussion group except that I'm a lurker
member of a Linux users' group in the Chicago area.


Kan Yabumoto

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