Oldbies (WAS Re: Posts that get replies (or not))

[abigailnus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "alice_loves_cats" <hypercolor99 at h...> 
> Actually, membership is increasing quite fast... sometimes up to 50
> people join a day. I wonder when the list will really get out of
> hand... "out of hand" would mean, let's say, that only about 1% of the
> members would be reading ALL the messages, spending many hours a day
> doing so... scary.

Well, I don't think I've ever read all the messages.  Even when I was just starting out, I 
picked topics that appealed to me, although I did read every message on the topic.  Of 
course, back then, all discussions were new to me, so quite often I would read nearly all 
the messages.  Even then, however, I'd have dead periods when nothing caught my 
fancy.  These days I'm much the same, but there is a group of posters whose posts get 
read no matter what the subject.

Abigail