J C Lawrence wrote:
> I read your post as stating that was the member's purpose as distinct
> from the list' purpose.
No, sorry I was unclear -- it was the specific purpose of many of those
lists to provide a "home base" for people who have XYZ in common, not to
be topic-restricted to XYZ.
>>And at our site it has succeded more than 50% of the time.
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> Really? You have taken purposive lists and forked them successfully as
> above, or you have taken lists that decayed into salon lists nd found
> that they can survive as salon lists? The two are quite different.
We have taken topic-based lists and forked a salon to go with them, and
found the main list's traffic reduced by 20-50% and the salon's traffic
at anywhere from the difference to 2-3x the difference.
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