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

["Mike and Beverly Rogers" <mbrogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And a big thanks to you.  I've been on the list for about three years, and
have learned so much valuable information.  Great job!  Bullfrog
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From: "fjm" <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "h-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Historical perspective of harp-l


> 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
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