Dear Vera   I noticed a quiet time as well.  Perhaps peaks correspond with TV series - and troughs with big religious festivals, or big secular holidays.    So, having nothing better to do, I made a comparative table... Glamorgan (who have a very high number of messages, but a much larger area and population; Dyfed and Powys   The list doesn't accept attachments, but those time on their hands could convert the data into a bar chart or similar.  Figures show a similar drop in the other lists...  so it wasn't something we said - perhaps all the Dyfed regulars have gone on hols or a cruise ?    Comparative Figures, messages for this December 08 to December 09 ROOTS WEB Discussion Lists                  Glam.                 Dyfed.                 Powys Dec-08       505                 135                 65 Jan-09       571                 196                 98 Feb-09       393                 203                 67 Mar-09       582                 184                 128 Apr-09       435                 128                 127 May-09       371                 161                 145 Jun-09       359                 148                   83 Jul-09        410                 169                 111 Aug-09       366                 140                 130 Sep-09       355                 95                    79 Oct-09       330                 217                 61 Nov-09       536                 139                 74 Dec-09       115                     47                 15   Regards   Jen --- On Thu, 10/12/09, vera lowe <v.lowe@btinternet.com> wrote: From: vera lowe <v.lowe@btinternet.com> Subject: [Dyfed] No messages? To: "Dyfed Mailing List" <dyfed@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, 10 December, 2009, 14:38 Has there been a lack of correspondence on the mailing list lately? I have only had very few messages. Vera. ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jennifer Cairns <jenmathias@gmail.com> wrote: So, having nothing better to do, I made a comparative table... Glamorgan (who have a very high number of messages, but a much larger area and population; Dyfed and Powys. The list doesn't accept attachments, but those time on their hands could convert the data into a bar chart or similar. ============== Dear Jen, The number of messages on the different mailing lists is probably related to the population of the regions they cover. Glamorgan has by far the highest population; both Dyfed and Powys are low, with Powys the most sparsely populated of all the post-1974 Welsh counties. This is reflected in the traffic on the various mailing lists. It's also true that with the possible exception of the Glamorgan List, the traffic on the Welsh mailing lists is lower now than at anytime in their history. The Powys List webpage includes a bar chart illustrating the monthly traffic on the Powys List from 1998 to the present - access the chart at: www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm#stats The chart shows that traffic peaked in the year 2000 and has been steadily falling ever since. The Dyfed List traffic probably follows the same general pattern. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: john@jlb2005.plus.com John's Homepage: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/ Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Joint Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists