[Bigbang-dev] Number of mailinglist subscribers

[Corinne Cath]

Hi Colin,

Thanks! so this is not exactly exact science? Do we know who wrote the
script, because for this data to be useable for our academic purposes it is
important to know exactly how the count happens :)

Kind regards,

Corinn

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:19 PM Colin Perkins <csp at csperkins.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 18 Aug 2020, at 12:14, Corinne Cath <corinnecath at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Thanks! so i had a question, i had a look at all the numbers for hrpc
> between 2014 and 2017 and what I don't understand is the fluctuations
> between months. Is that because it counts the people that subscribed that
> month?
>
>
> I’m not sure how these reports are produced, but it looks like the “Lists”
> links are counting the number of messages sent to the list, and “Subcounts”
> are the number of people subscribed to the list at some point in the month.
>
> Colin
>


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