Date:         Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:21:17 -0700
Reply-To:     ajay ohri <ajayohri@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         ajay ohri <ajayohri@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: What do we have to do to SAVE SAS-L
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 Arthur

 Are questions down or are answers down?

 What /Who are the top 10 responders compared to last year
 and volume answered by them?

 Also if we could do an analysis on google keywords on sas
technical questions.

 Google Trends reveal the following on Website Data

 http://trends.google.com/websites?q=support.sas.com,sas.com,r-project.org,http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

 and on some SAS technical keywords as
 http://trends.google.com/trends?q=proc+freq,+proc+datasets+,proc+means,sas+code,proc+reg&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=4

 but if you look at http://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/popularity

 you can see SAS-L is down not just because of these reasons
 alone
 Regards

Ajay

 "If you have the guts, you will have the glory"


> --- On Thu, 8/5/10, Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
> > Subject: What do we have to do to SAVE SAS-L
> > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 6:13 AM
> > SAS-L posts, as at the end of July
> > this year, are down 36.7% from what
> > they were at the same point in time last year (i.e.,
> 9962
> > posts this year,
> > compared with 15745 posts last year).
> >
> > Has everyone's questions already been answered or,
> > conversely, has
> > competition between the usenet and listserv versions
> of
> > SAS-L, SAS Forums,
> > and the other posting sites that are now available
> simply
> > resulted in
> > people giving up looking for answers to their
> questions?
> >
> > If it is the latter, what can we ALL do about it?
> >
> > Art
> >
>
>
>
>