On Friday 28 November 2003 2:25 pm, Anthony Anson wrote:
The message 20031128114436.GK16630@thebowery.co.uk
from adam@thebowery.co.uk contains these words:
I want the lurkers to speak up. We have 250 addresses getting copies of this. Even if we assume that all the meeting venues get different people (definitely untrue IMO), that means we only see about three dozen of them to talk with. How do we get the other seven-eighths involved?
I definetly agree on this, I sometimes wonder how many of these mail boxes are going to /dev/null and why we see many people join the list but never post? are they there? do they really exist?
Send out an annual resubscribe to non-posters, with two monthly reminders before removal?
One or two may be lost, but are they benefitting anyway?
I've heard, although admittedly from a local-boy-turned-famousish-internet-troll that a ten to one poster to lurker ratio is about average. Assuming thats about right then being able to meet 30ish in the flesh isn't so bad is it?
As to your question...let people who want to lurk, lurk. They aren't hurting anyone ;)
*waves at the lurkers but in a 'please don't feel it necessary to wave back manner'*
BenE