[Husker] List members

[Mike Nolan]

The rule of thumb on USENET was that 5% of the readers of a newsgroup 
would post to it.  In my experience that seems to be true for mailing 
lists too.  

I think web-based forums tend to have a bit higher percentage of readers 
as active posters, but perhaps that's because it isn't a 'push' system 
so people have to actually take the effort to go to the website, which 
increases the number who are likely to say something while they're there.

The List archives were made non-public a couple of years back because
of some problems with outsiders who would read the archives then email
their snide comments to subscribers.  I have considered going back to
a public archive, possibly even with an RSS feed, though that might
take some changes to the archive structure if not to the list management
software itself.
--
Mike Nolan

> Wow. So we've had about 20-25 or so folks respond to where they are out of over 400? Not a very good sample size! I wonder how many folks sign up and then forget they are even on it.
> 
> I am amazed the list went from 2000 to around 400, although I guess membership is directly proportional to the popularity (and national success) of the program.
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at romaine.tssi.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:07 AM
> To: Scott R Lawson
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] List members
> 
> 
> > While we're on the 'demographic' topic, is anyone (I guess Mike Nolan specifically) aware of the number of current listers? I always wondered how many folks were signed up.
> 
> The current count is 418.  That's a far cry from what it was in the 1995
> season, when I think we peaked at around 2000, but I think that's also
> up from where it was a year ago.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>