[SEL] Remember the old days?

[Listerdiesel]

On 14/09/2007, Alan Bowen <rustaholic777 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>
> I was just thinking about when I joined this list.
> I was amazed to get between 80 and 100 emails a day.
> That probably was both the SEL and "Jim's list", but that was a lot of emails.
> I was on my WebTv then and it was hard to handle all that email.
>
> What do you figure the difference is now?
>
> My vote is SmokeStak.
>
> Alan Bowen

Harry's site has made some difference, but it is a more general thing
in my view.

When the Indiana.edu list was running, it was possibly the only one of
its kind, now you have discussion sites for almost every branch of
engineering, and you cannot keep up with them all unless you spend all
day at the screen.

Reggie has also given a good description of what happens when you
first join, any discussion tends to fall away as you get established
and become more selective about which discussions you join in with.

People also have less free time these days in my experience, even
those who are retired seem to be as busy or busier than when they were
working.

Peter
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Peter A Forbes
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