law porn re-redux

Some time back (time being a slippery substance post-tenure), law blogland served the very useful purpose of calling out the excessive waste of resources that law schools engaged in by sending out their latest accomplishments on glossy pages to everybody and her cousin in the legal academy. This included such bizarre things as alumni magazines, as if what interests me is how a school appeals to its justifiably proud graduates. I seem to receive far fewer such mailings. But I also sense that this practice has been curbed generally, perhaps in part because of its cost, perhaps because it seems not to have much effect, and perhaps because of the useful shaming that blog discussions had. Three questions:

1. Am I correct that the number of schools and number of publications have gone down?

2. Does this mean schools shouldn't even send out one informational publication? I must concede that in my administrative capacity (now ended), my ugly mug appeared on one such flyer, but I always made sure that it included no puffery -- just letting folks know what my colleagues were publishing. Maybe I'm rationalizing.

3. The alternative would be to push such things by email rather than USPS mail or by merely making things available via the pull of the website. My intuition tells me that recipients get more exorcised by email spam than by junk mail, and that besides potential students or faculty, no one visits a school website to consider an institution. I would suspect, in other words, that this would be a mostly useless exercise. If the answer to question 2 is "yes, no law porn at all," then is it worth doing any such promotion?