How many on list?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Nov 10 03:09:13 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 01:28 +0000, John Bowden wrote:
> Can any one give me an estimate of how many people are on this
> list. I started reading it about 3 or 4  weeks ago after having
> trouble installing FC6 on a second drive. Actually I haven't
> installed it yet as my Mandriva file / print server went down
> and I had to use the spare space on the machine that was going
> to house FC to back up 300Gb+ of personal stuff. The list seems
> to have a lot of traffic, which says to me that either a lot of
> people use it or FC has a lot of issues. Don't get me wrong I'm
> not knocking FC and as soon as I have sorted out some spare
> space on the other machine it will get installed as I want to
> learn how Red Hat do things and can't afford to splash out for
> the commercial version yet.
> 

Normal list traffic is in the 130 - 200 postings per day range.
Today was an exception with >300 postings and most of that on a single
thread.

I believe the vast majority of the list members are lurkers.

To get a feel for the overall activity and topics you can look at the
archives (link at the bottom of every post.)

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