On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 08:18 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >>> I also was confused by its flatness. I am finding the email traffic
> >>> almost impossible to continue tracking, so something different is
> >>> happening, but it seems it is not volume-related.
> >> Yes, my perception also is that it's getting harder and harder to keep
> >> up with the list traffic; so something is happening that a simple
> >> volume count doesn't capture.
>
> If measured in "bytes of the gzipped mbox" it looks like there's a
> *huge* increase of volume on Hackers in the past 3 months - well
> over twice the historical levels; and maybe 4X 2002-2006.
Its because we eliminated the -patches mailing list.
Joshua D. Drake
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