What happened?

[Robert E. Spenger]

It just happens. The flow of messages goes up and down like the tides, but not as predictably.
The same thing is happening in several other camino egroups at this time. "Saintjames," one of
the Yahoo egroups, with only 88 members, was getting as many as two to three hundred messages a
month during the middle of last year. In the last three months of the year it ranged from 55 to
65. There were only 38 in January and 40 in February. From February 2nd to February 22nd there
were no messages and from February 28 to March 8 there were no messages. The data for
"Santiagobis" is not as easily available, probably because the archives are converted to a
different form.

The surest way to bring the tide back to flood is to send in a message which asks a number of
provocative questions.

Mary Hall wrote:

> Where did everybody go?  From 40 messages a day to zero?!!  Mary Porter Hall in New York City