As a moderator one of the things I do daily is log into the group and check for pending messages and pending members.
Well, when I got home at 0117 on Tuesday (after the semi-annual sheriffs communications reserve meeting, plus the post-meeting critique at the local Dennys) I went to check for pending messages before crawling into bed and found that we've hit 4402 members (not counting the 251 on the banned list). I had planned on making this announcement at 4,000 but real life got in the way - and by the time I was able to check the count was at 4428. So I was waiting for 4400. So... here's a few things that struck me as interesting... Of those 4402, 700 (exactly!) are in daily digest mode, 1096 are getting individual emails, 2163 are in "No Email" mode (which means they read it at the yahoogroups web site - hopefully they DO read it) and 441 are in "Special Notices" mode (which is just like the "No Email" mode except that they would receive an email if the moderators or the owner needed to send out a high priority email to all the group members). Personally, I never use "No Email" mode, I always use either "Individual Email" mode or "Special Notices" mode. There have been times when the group owner or a moderator needs to send out a high priority bulletin. Of the 4402 current members there are 131 that get their mail via arrl.net, which surprises me as my arrl.net address (I've been a life member since 1978) consistently black-holes about 20-25% of the mail sent to me by way of arrl.net. A closer look shows that only 20 (exactly) are on individual email mode, and 22 are on daily digest. The rest are in "No Email" or "Special Notices" mode. The oldest member is dated as having joined on the first of January 1999 (which may be an artifact of the Yahoo data base), and 148 are listed as having joined that year, 178 in 2000, 290 in 2001, 316 in 2002, 438 in 2003, 413 in 2004, 579 in 2005, 648 in 2006, 639 in 2007, 576 in 2008, and 175 so far in this year. A few more facts that struck me as interesting are: 214 on gmail 198 on hotmail 29 at juno.com 2 at motorola.com 1 at ge.com none at Ericsson none at tyco none-at com-net 1683 at yahoo (collectively) 37 at yahoo.ca 36 at yahoo.uk 1492 at yahoo.com 6 at yahoo.ar 27 at yahoo.au 7 at yahoo.br 7 at (anything).gov 65 in (anything).au (Australia) 13 at (anything.br (Brasil) 97 at (anything).ca (Canada) 2 at yahoo.com.cn (China) 2 at (anything).hk (Hong Kong) 23 at (anything).it (Italy) 5 in (anything).mx (Mexico) 9 in (anything).nz (New Zeland) 5 at (anything).pt (Portugal) 11 in (anything).se (Sweden) 3 at yahoo.com.tw (Taiwan) 59 at (anything).uk (United Kingdom) 9 at (anything).za (South Africa / Zaire) 1 at (anything).zw (Zimbabwe) The above is not intended to be a full country code list - just the ones that stood out as I wandered through the spreadsheet And no, I will not violate anyone's privacy by releasing that spreadsheet. Mike WA6ILQ
