On Jun 7, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Thomas Narten wrote: > 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... This list has 2155 subscribers. Rough, quick count numbers: 56 sent messages week ending 31 May 58 week ending 24 May 87 week ending 3 May 56 week ending 5 April 82 Week ending 8 March 28 week ending 8 Feb 68 week ending 11 Jan Average: 62 or 3% on the list Quick glance looks like same people most of the time sending messages Would be interesting to just report on Last Call mail. You might find justification there by itself to create a Last-Call list. Ray > > Thomas >