** Sometime around 06:14 12/6/96, Cindy Stanley said:
>I've heard some of you mention that you run mailing lists with *thousands* of
>subscribers. What kinds of lists are these that would attract such a huge
>subscribership? How long have they been up and running?
HumourNet (11,000 direct distribution subscribers, roughly 30-40,000 on
secondary distribution to BBSs, other mailings lists that redistribute
HumourNet mailings, and the like) has technically been around for just
over two years. However, for its first 8 months of life, it was a small
private list, and "went public" (stock offerings?) in July 1995 with 65
(or so) members. So, for all intents and purposes, it has been around for
17 months.
It is a "moderated-edit" humor list -- though, for possibly obvious
reasons, the -noedit lists grow somewhat faster. (For example, I know of
several newcomers on the moderated-noedit humor mailing list scene that
already have a few thousand subscribers.)
A long-time runner on the moderated-noedit humor mailing list side is
Steve Willoughby's "Oracle Service Humor List," probably the single best
store-and-forward moderated humor mailing list on the 'Net, with (last I
heard) more than 22,000 subscribers.
BTW, when I first went public with HumourNet, I listed it in the List
of Publicly-Accessible Mailing Lists (PAML); this was responsible for
a big boost in our subscribership early on.
<http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/>
Disclaimer: I don't work for PAML. I have no association with Oracle
and/or Steve Willoughby. My employer agrees with nothing that I say. In
fact, my employer doesn't even like the way I dress, but that's another
story. All statements made by me represent the official policy of the
United States government, since Bill takes orders directly from me (and
I take mine from Hillary). And if you believe that, I have a nukular
warhead to sell you.
Claimer: I *do* work for HumourNet Communications, Ltd., but only nights
(late ones) and weekends. And they don't agree with anything I say,
either.
- Vince S.
wavelet@colossus.arl.mil
<http://www.humournet.com/HumourNet/>
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