[Magdalen] decline of this list

[Robert Counselman]

Just checked my gmail account and found and wonderful cache of messages
from people I haven’t heard from in ages!!  Delightful!  I, too, abandoned
Facebook a long time ago.

I retired (sort of) to Texas more than 10 years ago and of recent days have
been discovered by the Diocese of West Texas and am now supplying in Eagle
Pass and Carrizo Springs on alternate weeks. Keeps me busy as each is a 75
or 80 mile trip one way. Glad I can still be of use as there isn’t much
else happening out here in the sticks!

Great to see so many familiar names in the emails!

Let’s keep those emails coming!  Big A seems alive again.

Fr. Robert L Counselman,
Retired


On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 11:48 am, Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Me too!
>
> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Looking at the shift between 2019 and 2020, I'd say the List was another
> > victim of COVID..
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim   ...today my sail I lift .;;;
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 11:58, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Here we are, just two weeks into 2025, and we have already seen 74
> > > messages, 75 with this one, surpassing all of last year, and over half
> > > way to 2023's total.
> > >
> > > If we were to keep up this amount of traffic we'd be up at 2019 levels
> > > of some 1800 messages. But I don't suppose we shall!
> > >
> > > simon
> > >
> > >
> > > On 02/01/2025 12.49, 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
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Simon Kershaw
> > > simon at kershaw.org.uk
> > > Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
> > >
> > >
> >
>