[Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 11:22 PM -0800 11/21/00, J C Lawrence wrote:
>While I agree (with some distaste), those gyrations have shown
>themselves to have positive value for me.

short term. I had the same general attitude for a while, and did 
pretty much teh same thing, and found that over time, it basically 
killed my site through isolation and stagnation. I served a given 
population very well, but found that all I did was drive off fresh 
blood, and the existing population stopped growing, stagnated and 
started shrinking as old members moved on and weren't replaced.

Which, if it sounds like USENET today, well, oyu're right. USENET is 
doing the same thing, but on a hugely massive scale. I'm still 
working to recover what I feel is an essential vitality in my lists 
and get back into growth mode.

But we're so far off anything relevant to Mailman issues it's insane, 
so I won't push this one further on these lists, but audience 
management is tricky, and even things you think are working my bite 
you in the butt when you least expect it. Once you set the 
expectation of exclusionism on your site, it's a real bitch to change 
back....

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