Valdis writes: > Solipsism has no place in protocol design. Not solipsism. Just a reluctance to believe that you are an official--or even an unofficial--spokesperson for LSoft. > Granted, but since *your* claim is that most people > don't do any mailing lists, or very few, I'm not > willing to concede any adjustment there. What you do or do not concede is of little import, since readers can draw their own conclusions. > Either you have 120M people each on one list, > or most people are on more than one - your choice. Or you may have 10 million people on an average of 12 lists, which seems very plausible to me. > Sure, it's only 20M people(*) if the *average* > person is on 6 lists - but that's not the behavior > you claimed is average. I'd say that 95% or more of all Internet users are not subscribed to any list at all. Many of the remaining 5% are subscribed to many lists. > (*) Feel free to work the exact number out for > a Gaussian distrib around a mean of 6 with > different standard deviations if you want - > we're talking ballpark numbers here anyhow. ;) I think my point is made without it.