--- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Several FFL members have mentioned how they miss the participation of a number of people who used to post regularly and then disappeared. In a business, if you have 980 people who have bought from you and now only 30 come in, you start to question what's become of the others.
Yeah, but that isn't what happened here. There were never anything like 980 people actively participating. I don't know if there are any figures available, but I seriously doubt there were ever more than 50 at a time who were active participants, and the real regulars, people who posted every day, were probably never more than 30, maybe less. (If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me.) That's fairly standard for a group like this. I agree there's no knowing for sure why anybody left, or how many visit but don't choose to post. But the odds are pretty good that 960 people aren't sitting there lurking. That's probably true, but you can't conclude on that basis that they're not reading the group because it's just too nasty for them. I'm a member of several Yahoo groups that I joined on a whim and have ended up almost never reading, not because there's anything wrong with the group, just because I don't have the time.
