RE: Are Listserves Past Their Prime?

Stuart et al.,

To the contrary, I've watched some lists thrive and grow over the past year.
I believe that lists go through natural life cycles -- some die out while
others take their place. The reason for this ties directly to their
usefulness and relevance. 

Want a listserv that will overwhelm your inbox? Try Solosez, where there can
easily be hundreds of messages in a day. A Mass. lawyers list to which I
subscribe has grown from a trickle of posts a year ago to a couple dozen
some days. Two legal marketing lists I follow both seem to have grown in
popularity. I also track several journalism and media lists that are quite
active. 

The lists that are active and growing serve immediate and practical needs,
answering all those pesky law practice questions about "How do I ... " and
"Where do I find ... " They are lifelines to solo lawyers and lone marketing
professionals. 

NetLawyers was precisely such a list when it started way back when. It was,
in fact, the most active lawyer list at one point. To my thinking, it still
should be a vital resource for any lawyer who uses the Internet (which means
any lawyer). Perhaps the problem is an abundance of more-specialized lists,
detracting from this more general one.

-- Bob Ambrogi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:42 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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