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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. how many people are
subscribed to a list in total?<br>
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if I remember correctly, not even in principle</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Interesting, why is this the case? </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David is quite right on this point.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The data we currently have available are archived emails sent to the mailing list. Essentially, it is what you would see if you were a subscriber yourself, in your inbox.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From this we can identify who has *sent* to the mailing list.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But subscribers who never send a message are not represented in the data.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div></div>