Interesting... Joe M. (List member #5 if I recall correctly)
Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > 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 > > >
