mailing list size/activity

[Brian E Carpenter]

Basavaraj.Patil at nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > 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%

Diffserv, which is being closed down at the moment, still has
2294 subscriptions today, some of which are lists themselves.

I'd also guess a 3% rate of contribution.

> 
> >
> > 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

When we've done hums with a few hundred people in the room, we've probably
had a hundred people humming. Whether a hum counts as an opinion is
another question.

   Brian