Lists: stats, etc.
For our three balug- lists, for as long as I'm aware of us having been tracking numbers for those lists, these are count of email addresses subscribed to each.
YYYY-MM-DD announce talk admin 2009-01-10 662 290 30 2008-08-17 635 290 29 2008-03-03 571 247 28 2008-02-07 563 268 28 2008-01-02 337 260 28 2007-12-28 336 261 28 2007-10-21 304 251 27 2007-09-03 264 258 27 2007-07-24 287 256 27 2007-06-17 280 249 27
Note that generally "announce" includes all the email addresses, and probably is the best number to use for "membership" number if/when someone wants to know how many members BALUG has. Of course we don't force folks to come to meetings, so meeting attendance numbers are another statistic (and we don't fore folks coming to our meetings to be on our email lists either, so they're relatively independent numbers).
references: file://balug-sf-lug-v1.balug.org/home/balug/e-mail_lists/info http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-August/000602.ht... LC_ALL=C export LC_ALL cd /home/balug/e-mail_lists || exit ls -d balug-announce/membership_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9] \ balug-talk/membership_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9] \ balug-admin/membership_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9] | sed -ne 's/^.*([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})$/\1/p' | sort -r | uniq -c | awk '{if($1==3)print $2;}' | while read d do echo "$d" \ `wc -l < balug-announce/membership_"$d"` \ `wc -l < balug-talk/membership_"$d"` \ `wc -l < balug-admin/membership_"$d"` done | awk ' BEGIN {print "YYYY-MM-DD announce talk admin";} {printf("%s %8d %4d %5d\n",$1,$2,$3,$4);} '