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[Lee Flier <lflier AT mindspring.com>]

Oh yeah, there are a number of lists and newsgroups that have thousands 
of members and have been around forever. I'm referring to the smaller 
groups like ours, which tends to be the kind I gravitate toward. It's 
more close knit and not as hard to keep up with.

I also prefer not to have separate "off topic" forums. I like the fact 
that conversations can take a left turn, but it doesn't work well in 
larger groups (I agree that in a very large group there should be a 
separate list for that). In a smaller group, it can be fine, but it does 
take some awareness on everyone's part as to when it's gone too far, and 
when it might be alienating to new members.

On 12/31/2012 2:52 PM, lurine AT com-pair.net wrote:
> I belong to multiple e-groups/list.  One has over 5500 members.
> Another has over 3700 members and stil another has about 1200 members.