Mead Lovers Digest #1523

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #1523, 9 June 2011 
From: mead-request@talisman.com 

Mead Lover's Digest #1523                                  9 June 2011 

                      Mead Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Shut down the Mead-Lover's Digest? (Mead Lovers Digest Admin) 

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Digest Janitor: Dick Dunn 
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Subject: Shut down the Mead-Lover's Digest? 
From: mead@talisman.com (Mead Lovers Digest) 
Date: Thu,  9 Jun 2011 22:55:59 -0600 (MDT) 

Folks, 
Is it time to shut down the Mead-Lover's Digest? 

In the past, we expected one or two digests a week.  But now, the most 
recent article was submitted over seven weeks ago; the last digest came 
out almost six weeks ago. 

As admin/janitor, it makes little difference to me; the effort involved in 
keeping the digest mechanism around is negligible. 

BUT I feel it's wrong to hold out the MLD as a potential resource for new 
meadmakers, and then not deliver the goods.  There are 12 new subscribers 
just since the last digest, who've seen absolutely nothing.  And the 
digest content has been falling year-on-year since 2005; last year was 
about 1/3 of 2005.  That's quite a drop considering that subscriptions 
have been steadily increasing!  We've got just over 1300 subscribers. 

I realize that this posting is likely to prod some folks into submitting 
articles they've been considering.  If so--fine!  But if it sputters and 
dies again after a bit, let's think about whether it's worthwhile. 

I also realize that this posting will generate meta-discussion (about the 
shut-down question).  Feel free to send that either to the digest itself 
or to the admin address mead-request@talisman.com, where I will gather 
and summarize. 

There have been a few off-list suggestions of how to modernize the MLD, and 
I'm open to trying some of them.  But I'd have to get a sense that the 
readers actually want this.  The Cider Digest operates just the same as 
the MLD, but with 3/4 as many subscribers it has substantially more 
traffic. 
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Mead-Lover's Digest                            mead-request@talisman.com 
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor                  Boulder County, Colorado  USA 

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