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Whining vs Vigor(was: address for replies).
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2001 Dec 05, 7:40 PM
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2001 Dec 05, 7:40 PM
At 07:09 PM 12/5/01, you wrote: >If this is the biggest problem in anyone's life, count your >blessings. Silently. If it's not, my condolences. > >Either way, speaking as a list operator, this is the sort of penny >ante whining that makes me wonder why I take the time to run a list. > >Rick >S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35 Wrong answer! There are list operators who wonder why their list hobbles along in an emaciated state on the edge of drying out completely despite continued efforts to spark it to life. There are other list owners who put next to no effort in, but whose lists prosper and blossom. Apart from obvious features like the mass appeal of a topic (just how many off shore sailors are there who will not sit pat for a reading from 1,2,or 3 gps, but insist on practicing a difficult procedure, after all?) one factor that can be oil in the cogs, is the reduction of stray responses. Not all list readers register the source of the posts, or the destination of their responses - so a deathly silence is demotivating to them, and robs a list of some vitality.... Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!