[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

Irony:

Just a few days ago I felt obligated to call to the attention of some
friends my favorite Christmas poem and favorite setting thereof - - -
*Richard Wilbur's "A Stable Lamp is Lighted" as sung by The Miserable
Offenders.*

Brings back memories, doesn't it?  And some tears, maybe.

Mike M
Mike Mahoney
Stoneledge
446 Long Mountain Road
Washington, VA 22747
*   The perfect is the enemy of the perfectly acceptable.*



On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> 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
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
>