It may be that mailing lists have become less popular, due to SPAM. On the other hand, we shouldn't forget that Photoforum can be read without subscription to the list. People might go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/photoforum/ and look at the messages from time to time. Or, if they already use My Yahoo or a news aggregator of their own, they may even get the newest messages from the Yahoo newsfeed at the above location (the "RSS" and "Add to My Yahoo" buttons) without subscription. On the other hand, some of the listed subscribers may get all the messages automatically erased by a SPAM-filter without unsubscribing. No way to tell the actual "readership"... But a long as there are members contributing and/or reading it's surely worthwhile to continue! Just my two cents. Laurenz ----- Original Message ----- From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <andpph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:56 AM Subject: PhotoForum membership > Howdy! > > Here is a "statistic" of sorts about the list. There have been no > new member registrations for over four months if memory serves me > right. List membership stands at about 450 - high was about 1,000 > early on in mail list history .... like 1996 or so, 2 years after > PhotoForum came onto the Internet map so to speak. > > This bit of PhotoForum list trivia is shared just FYI from List HQ > and realizing this is not quite "on topic" - apologies beforehand! > > regards, > > Andrew Davidhazy, andpph@xxxxxxx for PhotoForum on the Internet >
