Some updated list stats, etc.:
A fair increase (7.5% increase in total uniques) since I last checked (see references),
list subscribers (does include also those with delivery disabled): $ wc -l */memb*`date -I` 28 balug-admin/membership_2007-12-28 336 balug-announce/membership_2007-12-28 261 balug-talk/membership_2007-12-28 $ sort -u */membership_*`date -I` | wc -l 518
e-mail addresses that are subscribed to "talk", but *NOT* subscribed to "announce". $ { sort -u balug-talk/membership_`date -I`
cat balug-announce/membership_`date -I` \ balug-announce/membership_`date -I`; } | sort | uniq -u | wc -l
177 That will soon get "corrected" ... policy has been changed, and for those that don't ask to be excepted, if they're on "talk" (or "admin") but not on "announce", they'll get added to "announce" unless they follow the procedure to get added to the exception list (this has been mentioned now on the "talk" and "admin" lists ... I'll wait a few days or so for folks to ask to be "excepted" - and then add those that don't ask to be excepted to the "announce" list - I plan to do this *early* next year - before we do our next send to the "announce" list).
I also restricted access of the list roster to the list admins - to prevent potential abuse (e.g. by spammers). Those that have access to the balug group on new.balug.org can also read periodically archived copies of the list roster and backup copy of the archives ( file://new.balug.org/home/balug/e-mail_lists/ )
references: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-October/000419.h... http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2007-December/004105.h... http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-December/000470....