[Foundation-l] We have the problem

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at 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!