Doug, Wow! Those numbers are quite impressive. As Tim pointed out, I indeed was referring to the active readers, and his guess is very close to how I estimated. Of course that underestimates even the number of readers, as some people skip some threads.
As a side note, there is probably a good overlap between subscribers and those people reading on mail-archive. I myself, subscribe to the digest version to be able to post to the list, while reading it on the web (and to have a backup for some cases of mail-archive hickups and peculiarities). Gmail would probably be a better alternative, but there is an issue of certain habits and inertia. Cheers, Igor PS. I don't know what was before, but it is good that you are again em-capacitated. Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:12:20 -0800 Tim Sherburne wrote: > > Well, there's a difference between subscribers and active readers. Perhaps > Igor was looking at his own web stats on a PESO page or something similar? > > Tim On 1/18/06 14:58, Doug Brewer wrote: > mmmm. nope. > Right now, we're running right about 500 regular list subs, 400 > digest subs, and who knows how many on Mail-archive readers. Judging > from the complaints I get if the archives are slow/dormant, it's in > the hundreds. > > > Doug > List Guy > now with email capacity again.
