J C Lawrence wrote: > I read your post as stating that was the member's purpose as distinct > from the list' purpose.
No, sorry I was unclear -- it was the specific purpose of many of those lists to provide a "home base" for people who have XYZ in common, not to be topic-restricted to XYZ. >>And at our site it has succeded more than 50% of the time. > > > Really? You have taken purposive lists and forked them successfully as > above, or you have taken lists that decayed into salon lists nd found > that they can survive as salon lists? The two are quite different. We have taken topic-based lists and forked a salon to go with them, and found the main list's traffic reduced by 20-50% and the salon's traffic at anywhere from the difference to 2-3x the difference.
