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-------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean Andrews" <cultstud76 at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:49 AM To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] this list
> Wow! I knew it wasn't that active, but those are some pretty stark
> numbers. I was sort of kidding about Facebook, but is that - or other
> social media - the main reason for the drop in traffic? Are there fewer
> subscribers? I still get a decent number of messages on some of the other
> lists I am on - mostly academic with a few activists - but they are mostly
> just for announcements and a few queries; little conversation.
> On Dec 12, 2015 22:59, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
>
>> I hope that whatever happens the archives will be available.
>>>
>>
>> Absolutely.
>>
>> For what it's worth, at ~740 messages this year, we're at about 3% of the
>> traffic that we had in 2003. That was the year we had 31509 postings, or
>> an average of 86+/day. To put that in perspective, we had close to 150
>> spam messages that were rejected and 8 that made it through the filters
>> today.
>>
>> There are close to 350,000 excellent messages in the archives since
>> 1-May-1998, and it represents an amazing corpus of information. Please
>> use
>> it, reference it, laugh at it sometimes :-) and enjoy.
>>
>> And if you click on a ad on one of the pages, an angel gets her wings :)
>>
>> /jordan
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