David Romerstein wrote: > I'm on many mailing lists. I participate in all of them. I am aware of > the approximate volume of mail I get from them everyday, at least by > orders of magnitude. If a list that normally sees 20-30 emails a day > doesn't have any for a day, I'm likely to start investigating. That may > make me unusual; based on my experiences blocking spam at A Large ISP > several years ago, though, I suspect that I am not. People complain to > their postmasters *vociferously* when expected mail is not received, and > that shows that those emails have value to them. You are overgeneralizing. Some lists have significant daily volume, others do not. Some people read list mail every day, others do not. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf