13 May
2008
13 May
'08
2:25 p.m.
Tim Yocum wrote:
Patrick is correct - the subscriber count is just north of 10k; likely far greater readership considering web archives, remailers, etc.
However... subscribership != readership. There are always many subscribers who don't actively read every post, or every day. (I'm just now catching up on 10 days of unread posts - it would be easy to declare email bankruptcy and just mark it all read...) All you have to do is post an important announcement (such as "the mailing list is moving to a new server") and then notice how few read it to prove the truth of this fact. :-) Also, note how few read the list's welcome message, read the FAQ, etc. jc