Now do a time series regression analysis and a fitted currve to predict future message volume.

On 6/3/2012 3:07 PM, steve harley wrote:
on 2012-06-01 15:54 Dmitry Gromov wrote
Not sure where is my own archive from 2000 forward, but since I
switched to Gmail at the end of 2004, I quickly grabbed conversation
counts per year:

2005    7,831
2006    7,381
2007    6,247
2008    5,009
2009    5,249
2010    5,295
2011    4,841

here is the individual message count obtained by summing monthly totals on pdml.net, or alternately by counts of mail-archive.com searches within 6 months of 2 July of given years (this search captures a year give or take a day):

year    pdml    mail-archive
2006        68271
2007    60383    60201
2008    45822    44367
2009    52887    54505
2010    52122    53697
2011    41848    46731


i double-checked the 2011 figures and cannot explain the large discrepancy; the average length of threads (consistently just under 10 based on conversation count) could be considered a measure of mailing list health — 10 is good

just for fun, here is monthly message volume from pdml.net charted to show seasonal and yearly variation (2006 and 2012 are partial);

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8gs1dvv66wuyg2/chart.png>



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lengthily search.


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