<div dir="ltr">There is data to be mined... Perhaps someone with access to the subscription logs could put together some info on who was posting the most right before people left?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:17 PM, David Tomaschik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com" target="_blank">david@systemoverlord.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm not sure that 500 subscribers (or even less) is that little...<br>
<br>
I wish we had some idea why people were leaving... is it off topic<br>
discussions, inflammatory discussions, or is it the presence of sites<br>
like Stack Exchange and other sources for information?<br>
<br>
(Or is it just the decline in email use?)<br>
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> At the time I took over as admin a number of years ago (7,8?), there were<br>
> about 1600 subscribers.<br>
> About a year ago, ALE had about 1600 subscribers.<br>
> We are now below 500.<br>
><br>
> I no longer get notified when people unsubscribe as I turned it off several<br>
> months ago. Sad, really.<br>
><br>
> Is it time to pull the plug?<br>
><br>
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