mailing list size/activity

[Basavaraj.Patil at nokia.com]

> On Monday, Mar 10, 2003, at 07:53 America/Montreal, Scott 
> Bradner wrote:
> >> not that I doubt the general trend, but is this size 
> typical?  for the
> >> WG mailing lists I've run, the number of subscribers was
> >> closer to 100-200.
> >
> > two data points from the lists that I manage
> > 	tsvwg - 650
> > 	ieprep - 234
> 
> Another datum is that, for example, maybe 10-15% [1] of the 
> subscribers to the IEprep list have ever posted a note to that list.  
> It would not startle me to hear that that percentage is relatively "normal"
> for an IETF WG list.

10-15% may be the average. For eg. mobileip has 1721 subscribed email addresses.
I would guesstimate the % of people posting to this list to be about 2~3%

> 
> Note that I don't claim this by itself is a problem.  It sure is
> interesting though.

Agreed :) - But the problem is: What is "consensus" in WGs that have very
large number of people interested in the work but few who really express
opinions

> 
> Ran
> 
> [1] This value is a guess, not a measured value.
> 

-Basavaraj