On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:15:01PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > If no other record of membership duration has been maintained, then > the luv-main and other list archives do show the date of the earliest > recorded post of each member, i.e. the date on which they became an > active member, if the archive is complete.
two problems with that: 1. not everyone posts - in fact, i'd be surprised if more than about 25 or 30% of members ever post at all (most members of most lists lurk and rarely, if ever, post anything - that's perfectly normal), and 2. membership is from when you subscribe to luv-announce, not when you first post to luv-announce or any LUV list. given that the mailing list software has changed at least twice (and even the name of the list, from melb-linux to luv-*), there probably isn't any reliable record of when everyone joined. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
