are mailing lists dead?

[snugglekitty]

I moderate a mailing list. I belong to several. I know that's true of lots of other people here.

Over the past few years, I have seen a drastic decline in traffic on ALL of the mailing lists I belong to.

And I'm starting to wonder. Are mailing lists dead? Has lj replaced them to some extent? IMO, lj cannot take the place of topical mailing lists exactly, not even lj communities, but I begin to suspect that for many people, the time and energy they used to spend on mailing lists is now going into lj.

Are your mailing lists dead? When's the last time you posted to one? When's the last time you posted here?

Comments

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Another implication I have noticed - you can't just read the part of the conversation that interests you based on subject tags. Not that that ever worked perfectly, but still.