Re: [Paddlewise] Great list

> Hi Jackie,
>
> Could you tell us how many list members we have?

The membership level stays pretty much between 550 and 600.

> How much effort do YOU but into this list.  How much work is really
> involved in keeping this going?  An hour a day, two?  More?  8-(

|Why?  Am I up for a pay raise?  :-)

|Cheers,

|Jackie


Yes Mam!  I'm more than willing to increase your salary for the list work
by a factor of 100!  8-)

I'm curious about the work effort for a couple of reasons.  One, I'm just
really curious!  8-)  Two, the other list I'm subscribed to, which has
about 3000 members, has "issues."  The list owner says he puts in over 3
hours per day just to maintain the list.  That seems very excessive to me.
Not that I don't believe him, I believe he puts in that kinda time.   That
just seems like an amazing amount of time and effort.  Now he is running
contests, writing web tutorials for the list, and has some security
problems so I can see where some of the time is going.  I'm just curious if
this list requires that much effort.

The other list also seems very sensitive to off topic threads.  The admin
has mentioned that off topic threads generate many messages to him to kill
the thread.  Since PaddleWise SELDOM goes off topic, 8-), do you have this
kinda problem?

The curiousity is further peaked because the differences between the two
lists are so extreme.  While the other list has 5 times the members which
certainly adds to the admin's work load as well as increases the odds of
someone saying something that is misinterpreted and starts a flame war,
this list just is light years more mature.  Yes mature!  Can you believe
it!  8-)

But after reading many of the Bio's that were just sent in, the list seems
to be much older, errrr, mature!  8-)  Running and ducking!

Soooo, I'm wondering how much time you spend as the hidden hand on the
helm.

Thanks...
Dan McCarty


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