[Balug-Admin] stats: last meeting & list membership; & other list info.

[jim stockford]

    these days the balug talk list is quiet. what are
the chances it could become voluminously active?
    thanks for the stats.


On Jul 24, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:

> For the interested/curious:
>
> 2007-07-17 meeting attendance:
> approximately 22+ (largest in a fair while)
> 21 dining with us on our regular restaurant deal
>  1 dining with us on separate menu and pricing
> I think there was also a smaller bunch (approximately 4)
> that seemed to want to join us for dining, ... but way late and
> when there wasn't really any additional seating available with us - I 
> think
> they went to hang out somewhere else ("lobby", bar?) and may have 
> joined
> us for at least part of the talk/presentation.
>
> list subscribers (does include also those with delivery disabled):
> $ wc -l */memb*`date -I`
>    27 balug-admin/membership_2007-07-24
>   287 balug-announce/membership_2007-07-24
>   256 balug-talk/membership_2007-07-24
> And a rough approximation of unique e-mail addresses (note that some 
> folks
> use unique per-list addresses):
> $ sort -u */membership_*`date -I` | wc -l
> 467
>
> Note also that it appears we have a fairly large number of folks that 
> are
> subscribed to "talk", but *NOT* subscribed to "announce".
> Theoretically (at least logically) that shouldn't be the case
> (in general - typically exceptions being per-list e-mail addresses),
> but it is totally under "user" control.
> A quick count of that:
> $ { sort -u balug-talk/membership_2007-07-24; cat
> balug-announce/membership_2007-07-24 
> balug-announce/membership_2007-07-24; } |
> sort | uniq -u | wc -l
> 174
>
> Perhaps we'll address that in the future (e.g. subscribe "talk" to
> "announce" and remove from "announce" e-mail addresses also present on
> "talk") ... but for now I'm thinking we'll probably leave it as-is.
> Perhaps when we're about ready to move the lists ... could test that 
> out
> a bit, and if such a change would work fine, put such a change
> in place at time of migration (of course, with such a change in place,
> nothing would automagically prevent an e-mail address from then
> subscribing to both lists ... but perhaps we could set up something
> that would automagically deal with that).
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