[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Timothy Stewart]

We (St. Peters Honolulu) just called a new rector--Rev. Ruth Peterson, 
our second Lutheran Priest.

The last one (Rev. Diane Martinson)will be a hard act to follow, IMHO.

I'm wishing both the best

Tim Stewart

Honolulu

On 1/3/2025 8:12 PM, Timothy Stewart wrote:
> Facebook? What's that?
>
> I'll send some gossip later,
>
> Tim Stewart
>
> Honolulu
>
> On 1/2/2025 6:54 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> And a lot of folks who were on here are now connecting on FaceBook.
>>
>> Grace Cangialosi
>> Ruckersville, VA
>>
>> * "Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and
>> walks around in the world"*
>> *                                              Michael J. Graham, SJ*
>>
>>
>> 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