I'd agree it has to do with the increase of usage from other tools. We have sort of built up a fear of getting responses like "Don't top-post!", "RTFM", etc. I can get 99% of my answers from googling it which often leads to stackoverflow or something similar. The only ones I can't are things like "Hows the internet here?".
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jonathan Duncan <[email protected] > wrote: > > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
