As I was compiling information for our quarterly board report, I discovered
something interesting.  Since October, our dev list has increased by 87
subscribers to 226 (!), while the user list has decreased by 42 subscribers
to 150 (?!).  However, we've only lost 7 subscribers total -- most of those
42 just switched to the dev list, or were already subscribed there.  So,
this seems fine as long as we're not letting our user list fall into
disuse, and from the message counts it doesn't look like we are.

Billie

That's pretty impressive. Hello outside observers, feel free to speak up if
you have any questions or comments!
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Billie Rinaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As I was compiling information for our quarterly board report, I discovered
> something interesting.  Since October, our dev list has increased by 87
> subscribers to 226 (!), while the user list has decreased by 42 subscribers
> to 150 (?!).  However, we've only lost 7 subscribers total -- most of those
> 42 just switched to the dev list, or were already subscribed there.  So,
> this seems fine as long as we're not letting our user list fall into
> disuse, and from the message counts it doesn't look like we are.
>
> Billie
>

Actually ... disregard those spurious counts.  The mailing lists are
increasing steadily, but we did not have a strange mass migration from user
to dev.  I just swapped the file names when I was pasting the lists for
analysis.  We now have 233 on the user list and 157 on the dev list.  :-)

Billie
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Billie Rinaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As I was compiling information for our quarterly board report, I
> discovered something interesting.  Since October, our dev list has
> increased by 87 subscribers to 226 (!), while the user list has decreased
> by 42 subscribers to 150 (?!).  However, we've only lost 7 subscribers
> total -- most of those 42 just switched to the dev list, or were already
> subscribed there.  So, this seems fine as long as we're not letting our
> user list fall into disuse, and from the message counts it doesn't look
> like we are.
>
> Billie
>