I guess that makes me a lurker, but Im legit, my husband is Bob Richards. He has been posting on here for years. I was on the list years ago, but recently rejoined after hearing Rick Fochtman died...He was a friend of ours :0(
I love computers, I try and follow my husbands technical stuff :0) Rebecca Richards ________________________________ From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:39 PM Subject: Re: How many subscribers? [email protected] (Graham Hobbs) writes: > Does that mean there's no such thing as a even a guesstimate? > Would 'lurkers' imply nasties? ibm-main mailing list is gatewayed to usenet ... outgoing only ... doesn't accept in-coming ... so any posting originating from usenet don't show up on the mailing list. ibm-main usenet is, in turn gatewayed to google groups ... i.e. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/bit.listserv.ibm-main they are lurkers in the sense that they read ... but don't post ... note that ibm-main mailing list subscribers that never post ... may also be referred to as lurkers. I have newsgroup client that I enjoy much more than any email client .. so I'm subscribed to ibm-main mailing list (allowing me to post) ... but have settings to not send me any email ... since I prefer to read on usenet. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
