What the weekly stats really ought to tally up is the readers/postings ratio, so that folk would get more direct feedback as to whether what they are posting is actually being read... My strong suspicion would be that there is strong negative correlation between frequency of posts and actual readers of those posts... Also, I suspect that many people do not realize that a significant chunk of IETF contributers are no longer subscribed to the ietf list due to signal to noise ratio concerns... Thomas