<div dir="ltr">The bickering is a turn off but welcome to the interwebs. I've been deleting posts from the flame thread and know it will taper off soon enough.<div><br></div><div>My vote is to keep the list open - I've learned a lot just lurking. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">At the time I took over as admin a number of years ago (7,8?), there were about 1600 subscribers.<br>
About a year ago, ALE had about 1600 subscribers.<br>
We are now below 500.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I no longer get notified when people unsubscribe as I turned it off several months ago. Sad, really.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is it time to pull the plug?</p>
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