roundtable: (CHAT) Chat

roundtable: (CHAT) Chat

(CHAT) Chat

PERRY SHARE (PSHARE@whum.riv.csu.edu.au)
Tue, 23 May 1995 09:51:47 GMT-10 

From: "PERRY SHARE" <PSHARE@whum.riv.csu.edu.au>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Date:          Tue, 23 May 1995 09:51:47 GMT-10
Subject:       (CHAT) Chat
Message-Id: <E9FB3F4827@whum.riv.csu.edu.au>


Curt Priest wrote that:
> 
>Dick Sclove, who runs LOKA lists, noted that his lists had many
>things posted, but interactive chats seemed to be fading away.
> 
>I sense the same thing on lists I regularly frequent.
> 
>He noted that while this had the positive effect of reducing traffic
>and keeping messages down, he thought the interactive nature of the
>lists were being lost.  I agree.

I have been noticing the same thing: eg the Comserve lists seem to be 
a LOT less buy than they used to be, and some other lists that I'm on 
apparently die for months until a message appears out of the blue.

Any ideas as to why this might be happening?  Could it be:

* the popularity of the WWW - people now spend more time Webcrawling 
than chatting.  If so the interactive nature of the Net might be 
declining

* to much traffic, too many lists, not enough time?

* everybody has moved to some really interesting lists that I don't 
know about?

Answers, via email, to this list, please!

Perry

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