Re: [Harp-L] Historical perspective of harp-l

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually Michael, we have fewer posts overall but currently we have the 
highest membership number we've ever had in the history of harp-l.  I 
don't have an easy way to compare bandwidths from the previous era but I 
will say that generally posts are much more on topic and the signal to 
noise ratio is a lot better.  I'd consider that pushing 2,000 posts era 
to be anomalous in that the internet isn't all new and special like it 
was then.  We have competition, lots of competition, harpon, harptalk, 
slidemeister, the German language group whose name I can't remeber, 
several news groups alt.harmonica, a tremelo group on gmane.org and no 
doubt a couple of others that I"m not aware of.  Oops forgot, the 
harmonicist.  During the Hugh era we were it.  There were no 
alternatives.  What's extraordinary about the membership numbers is that 
you can now easily read our content without joining.  Our web hits are 
pretty up there.  I haven't checked the stats recenty but there  has 
been a definite upward trend since our migration.  Anyone know what 
happened to Jonas or Hugh?  Chris Pierce I can find, Danny we hear from 
weekly, Michael P just chimed in.  Someone I really miss from the wku 
era is Bruce Steinberg.  What's extraordinary about that list of 187 
subscribers from 1994 is that they all found the list without the 
benefit of a search engine or a browser.  Lynx was just showing up and 
Mosaic was right around the corner, altavista was available but still 
young.  I want to say I was hipped to the list by HIP but I also read 
about it in AHN.  Aw, I'm getting all nostalgic, Ben can we crash the 
server for old times sake?  fjm