[Bigbang-dev] Number of mailinglist subscribers

[Colin Perkins]

Hi,

I expect it gets the data from the mailing list management software, so the information will be correct. I don’t know the details of how or when it's collected though.

Try asking Robert Sparks from the tools team (rjsparks at nostrum.com <mailto:rjsparks at nostrum.com>). He’ll either be able to tell you how it works, or know someone who knows.

Cheers,
Colin




> On 19 Aug 2020, at 19:52, Corinne Cath <corinnecath at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto:csp at csperkins.org>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 18 Aug 2020, at 12:14, Corinne Cath <corinnecath at gmail.com <mailto: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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> 
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