[Bigbang-dev] Number of mailinglist subscribers

[Corinne Cath]

Thank you - I emailed him. Will keep the list looped in. kind regards,
Corinne

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:08 PM Colin Perkins <csp at csperkins.org> wrote:

> 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).
> 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> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> Corinne Cath - Speth
> Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute
>
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>
>
>

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