Wirt, no doubt you'll come up with another piece of digital "red meat", and
then that "tomb" will, again, sound as though it was placed at the end of a
major airport runway.   :-)

Ray Shahan

Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming:

        -- WOW!!!   What a Ride! --





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:47 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [HP3000-L] OT: Quiet as a tomb
>
> Just a note to mark a trend. I subscribe to twelve different mailing
> lists.
> The five most busy have traditionally been these:
>
>      HP3000-L
>      su-talk (a Summit Information Systems list)
>      ECOLOG-L (a list for members of the Ecological Soc. of America)
>      evoldir (a professional evolutionary biology list)
>      aslcnm (the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, an amateur society)
>
> In the old days, before HP killed MPE, the rankings above were the order
> of
> the various lists busy-ness'es, with each list being about twice as busy
> as the
> list below it, although on some days, su-talk could challenge HP3000-L.
>
> Over the last year the busy-ness level of HP3000-L has fallen
> dramatically.
> And this week, and today especially, for the first time that I can
> remember,
> the HP3000-L has fallen below the aslcnm traffic level.
>
> If anyone is trying to predict what the "HP3000 community" will be like
> after
> 2006, this trend certainly isn't promising.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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