[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Brian Reid]

Every email list that I host or read has declined dramatically in the 
last few years. I think that many people are just not using email as a 
primary communication medium any more.

On 2025-01-02 04:49, Simon Kershaw wrote:
> Many moons ago, before this list began, I used to collate monthly
> statistics on a predecessor list. The original aim of those posts was
> to try and keep the number of posts down and to name and shame the
> most frequent posters.
> 
> But looking today at the number of posts here over the last 8 years it
> is clear that there has been a precipitous decline in posting. Even as
> recently as 2021 there was an average of more than a post a day. In
> 2024 the average was only slightly more than a post a week. Seven
> years earlier there were over 100 posts a week.
> 
> 2017: 5443 messages across 1350 threads
> 
> 2018: 3954 messages across 872 threads
> 
> 2019: 1853 messages across 375 threads
> 
> 2020: 1518 messages across 219 threads
> 
> 2021: 500 messages across 87 threads
> 
> 2023: 336 messages across 52 threads
> 
> 2023: 132 messages across 25 threads
> 
> 2024: 67 messages across 16 threads
> 
> 
> simon