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 > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > > > > ======================================================================== > This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared > by School Specialty's email filtering solution. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *