At 10:24 PM 6/3/2015, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Alistair,
>
>Yes, no doubt. We are probably the last three members left--only David, you
>and me now.  Maybe BenT to make four.  Call this the "last straw thread."
>
>Pictures? Who needs stinkin' pictures when you can read text and visualize
>complex mechanical systems and concepts!!! Or not.

Stuart, what is wrong?  Have you got a toothache?  If you're not
interested in a thread, don't read it!  Things grow and things
shrink.  This list still serves the same needs it always has, and it
would be a great shame to bend it out of shape in chasing a
demographic.  If Facebook serves the social part better, fine, that's
why it's there.  Pictures are neat, pictures are useful, and when
there's a need for a picture we point to a picture, it's not as
though it's hard to get a photo on the 'Net.

As of the last message I sent the list was being distributed to 398
members (i.e. that many were actually getting mail, not just
subscribed).  As a side note, it lost over half its circulation
between 20 and 24 April of this year -- I suspect that those were
dead subscriptions weeded out by the CONFIRM request that went out
about that time.  It has gained back since then, going from 355
receiving mail to 398.

Yours,
David