On Sun, 4 Apr 1993 19:10:00 EDT Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843 said:
>In particular, I found it strange (by my standards) at how few
>list-owners are subscribed to LSTOWN-L especially related to the
>number of LISTSERV sites, as well as number of lists.
 
Actually, I'm not surprised at all. My listserv has about 150 lists. Most
of them  are local, but guess  who is the  lists owner for most  of them.
That's right ... me. The remaining  are split between maybe 10 people and
only one or two of them are interested enough to subscribe to this list.
 
Most people, here or elsewhere,  are just not interested in understanding
the big  picture. If their  little piece of  the world works,  they don't
want to deal with anything else. When they do have a problem, they vastly
prefer to  dump it in  someone else's lap than  to research and  solve it
themselves.
 
I  think 250  people who  want to  learn about  something out  of half  a
million users is pretty good!(Actually, there are a lot of people on many
lists; It's probably more like 30,000 users.)
 
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