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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured |
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> from this page: |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/ |
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> If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them |
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> interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then |
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> nothing below matters. |
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> Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at |
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> how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the |
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> last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to |
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> less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was |
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> surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in |
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> 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of |
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> correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast |
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> these days. |
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I think traffic on ALL mailing lists has dropped, just like usenet. |
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Web forums are the normal place to go these days. Only us |
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technological dinosaurs are still using e-mail lists and newsgroups. |
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:) |
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