Re: Are Listserves Past Their Prime?

This is just a half-baked assessment, but I think listservs will be 
around for awhile, as long as spam doesn't ruin email entirely (and 
there's gotta be a sender-ID solution worked out that will help with that).

Blogs and RSS have a bit of scalability problem (not that it's 
insurmountable) in that they're based on polling each RSS source 
regularly, whereas listservs have nice efficient source-to-subscriber 
direct delivery. RSS aggregators can ameliorate that problem some.

But blogs and listservs each have their place. As does a sort of hybrid 
like QuickTopic (which now supports RSS, by the way).

Best,
Steve Yost
QuickTopic
http://www.quicktopic.com




George Socha wrote:
> For what it is worth, one of the listservs to which I subscribe, The
> Litigation Support Mailing List at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/litsupport,
> seems to be quite active with 3,540 members and monthly message counts in
> 2004 that ranged from 242 on the low end to 440 on the high end.  Another
> listserv which I monitor, Computer Forensics Tool Testing at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cftt/, also has a moderate but useful amount
> of traffic:  731 members, 4 new within the last 7 days, and 2004 monthly
> message counts between 5 and 86.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NetLawyers] Are Listserves Past Their Prime?
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> Posting on this listserve has been light. I came across a blog written 
> by an English professor at Lehigh University who is (I believe) a 
> citizen of India. Oddly, his comments may explain why posting on 
> this list has been light.  Please read them here:
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> http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/11/spoons-collective-shutting-
> down-group.html
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> or here:
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> http://tinyurl.com/5za3d
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