On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
- Communication at this list, as well as other common communication
channels (except blogs!), tends to decline. I am sending this message after two days without any email. While it may be explained with weekend days or so, it is definitely not so usual. One day without emails is usual just for holidays.
I made a tool for analyzing activity on the lists. It is not complete (there are a lot of data which may be used), but here are the first results:
October will be finished as the October with lowest number of messages for all years. July and September are at three years minimums, while August last year is just slightly lower than it was this year. Not so good indicator is also a tendency that, out of the first year (2004), number of emails tended to raise at the last quarter of the year. This year we have decline in number of emails from September to October.
Numbers confirm that the best year was 2006.
Numbers represent number of messages per month. Use fixed font for better look.
2004 xxx xxx xxx 64 532 506 474 242 462 650 276 282 2005 630 760 642 574 690 438 396 684 488 758 1074 672 2006 514 506 860 588 910 1666 1262 1670 2180 1206 1116 2530 2007 1138 624 665 1042 798 407 1163 471 791 1072 1030 1260 2008 1497 688 1679 1675 1131 942 609 501 699 506 xxx xxx
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Alternatively, we've learn not to go into long long nitpicking threads. So this is better, less volume, but signal/noise increases.
I'm even reading some threads now instead of automatically canning them.
Beware of the emailpostcountitis!