Folks,
Knowing how many people are 'on the list' is one thing
but how many people subscribe to comp.sys.hp.mpe?
I suspect that this group of people could be not far short
of the list members, maybe even more?! I'm one of them!
By the way, I fall into category 3.
I would never dream of posting a technical reply for fear
of being shot down in flames by those people who know
things - I only teach the stuff, so I don't need to know
AND I have a book/training manual that tells me what to
say!?!? :-)
Oh yes, there is also the time difference. Here in England
I don't see mmost of the posts until the next day (!?) and
by that time they have already been answered - Thank
God for that, it's another excuse for not replying! :-)
TTFN
Ian
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"Ellis, Steve (COMPRINT S)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Gibson Nichols wrote:
>
> > You said: "about a thousand". Wonder how you got this estimate.
> > Perhaps someone could sort and tally the unique names in the from
> > field in the archive to tell us how many people post . . .
> >
>
> As I suspect is the case with most lists, the number of people who post is
> but a fraction of the total number of list members. Those who don't post
> probably fall into one (or more) of four categories:
>
> 1) The ones who don't have any experience with the subject being discussed
>
> 2) The ones who don't have time to post
>
> 3) The ones who are too shy to post
>
> 4) The ones who, by the time they get their reply typed up, discover that
> Wirt has not only answered the question, but somehow tied it in with
> quark-hadron phase transitions and the disappearance of the Anasazi ;)
>
> Steve Ellis
> Long-time member of group #4,
> who sincerely hopes that Wirt never stops.
>
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