[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Grace Cangialosi]

And a lot of folks who were on here are now connecting on FaceBook.

Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:

> 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
>