On 01 Dec 2012, at 17:16, Steve Meyers wrote: > On 12/1/12 4:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote: >> I've been thinking a lot lately about the downturn in user group >> meeting attendance and mailing list participation over the last few >> years. Today I graphed Plug's mailing list activity from 2005 to >> present (messages per month), and noticed a startling coincidence. >> >> Is this causal or merely correlated? Did other groups see a similar >> downturn in mailing list usage? > > It's an interesting correlation, if nothing else. Either that, or the > new generation is too busy playing video games and texting, and the old > folks have kids and don't get out as much. :) >
Perhaps all of the above. I admit that StackOverflow is a pretty amazing resource that I have come to trust and rely upon quite heavily over the past year. Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
