[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Grace Cangialosi]

Hi, Mike…great to hear from you! I loved the Miserable Offenders!! My
favorite was “It Is Well With My Soul.”

Hope you are well! I miss being at Trinity…

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 Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>