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Perry Rovers asks:
> Can anyone tell me how many members the faq-maintainers list has and how
> many faqs are posted to the *.answers groups?
At the current time, there are 383 subscribers to faq-maintainers,
although there are probably about a dozen pending unsubscription
requests sitting in our queue. There are an additional 262
subscribers to faq-maintainers-announce only. (Relevant since we
would be quite willing to accept a single "call to action"
announcement for the -announce mailing list.)
It is highly appropriate, in my opinion, that discussion of the
mechanics and actual organization and division of work of producing
some sort of book be moved to a separate mailing list. At the same
time, I suggest that the group forming consider preparing regular
summaries of progress, and be prepared to refer "policy" questions
back to the broader mailing lists for other people's opinions.
It's harder to get an exact count of how many FAQ's are cross-posted
to the *.answers newsgroups:
o There are as of today 1179 entries in the LoPIP (List of Periodic
Informational Postings) which have news.answers in their Newsgroups
line. However, many of these entries are for multiple postings
(i.e., there could be more periodic informational postings than
this count); many FAQ maintainers are represented by multiple
entries (i.e., there could be fewer FAQ maintainers than this
count); and many of the entries are in reality defunct, but we have
not had the man-power to go through and verify their defunct status
and remove the entries (i.e., there could be fewer "active"
maintainers than this count).
o There are as of today 2615 archive names for postings approved for
cross-posting to *.answers.
o I ran a simple filter on the source database used to produce the
LoPIP postings to try to ascertain the number of unique authors.
The filter yields the number of unique email addresses, but not
unique periodic informational posting maintainers; i.e., it would
be fooled by something as simple as someone who had one LoPIP entry
with "foo@site1.org" and another LoPIP entry with "foo@site2.org",
although it would not be fooled by "foo@site1.org (bar)" vs. "bar
<foo@site1.org>". I got back the number 1422.
o There are as of today 678 LoPIP entries which are *NOT*
cross-posted to news.answers. There are doubtlessly also many
hundred additional periodic informational postings which we have no
records of at all.
-- Ping Huang <pshuang@mit.edu>, who doesn't believe in long elaborate mail signatures with stuff that most people could care less about....
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