Lawrence Kestenbaum wrote:

> Sure you do.  How many subscribers have we now?

Past 50. Which means that everyone who responded to the plea are already
active... and then there are more that are not.

> Probably at least some of these have been friends of mine who joined at my
> urging but then decided it wasn't their cup of tea.

How do we communicate that the tea will only be suitable if someone
participates?We all have to make our own tea.
The only tea that there will be is the tea that we each contribute to make.
It is not like this is a packaged deal delivering on the hidden promises of
preservation enlightenment.
Would it help if you were an owner of the list, so that you would get the
notifications when your friends joined, or left, the list so that you could then
make sure to deliver them suitable tea?
I'm at a loss here how to prepare tea for people who do not even say, "hello,
I'm (@$(*@$ and I would like to talk about #@%(&* and wish you all would stop
talking about poultry."

I'm open to establishing multiple owners. In fact, I'm open to establishing
multiples of multiple owners.

> > Bullamanka is not, and never has been, meant to be a list for lurking.
>
> Some people are shy.

OK, so what can we do to get past the shyness? I'm inclined to go back to
lurking myself, though it seems to me there is some sort of contradiction in
utility in signing up to a communication flow and then not communicating.

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