Hi,
Thanx to RoUS (Ken), now I can get the precise statistics of the number of the participants of each mailing lists in apache.org. Really great job, RoUS! -- Well, now: Subscribers: 8316 - announce@apache.org: (as of 21st October) IIRC, as of 17th July (3 months ago), we had Subscribers: 7400 - announce@apache.org This showed that we got extra (additional) 900 subscribers to announce@apache.org list, ASF-Wide Announcement List, in these 3 months! I assume this "extra (additional)" 900 subscribers has already known that they would receive over 40k mails (newsletter) monthly or bi-monthly. Furthermore, I got just "ONE" private mail which said "please unsubscribe me from announce@" in these 2 months. -- ONLY "1" --. (NOTE: previous mail contains "Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]") Great! Statistics proved that most of the participants to announce@apache.org list were welcoming such a newsletter! Now, I can declare PROUDLY, that "To those who do not want to receive over 40k mails: please unsubscribe. Can't you see the procedure of how-to @ the bottom of each mails?". Furthermore, "If you just want to get the news of httpd *ONLY*, please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Over 17770 subscribers to announce@httpd.apache.org might be waiting your subscription!" -- We, developers, tend to view the world by using only their left-side brain, with colored-eyeglass. Prejudice. announce@apache.org list subscribers are our "users". Users are wise enough (if given sufficient, precise information). Also, statistics shows everything. Anyway, we got extra (additional) 900 subscribers to announce@apache.org list in these 3 months! Great! Perfect marketing effort! This is all the great contributions from many many contributors to the #1, #2 newsletter. I *DO* really thank to all the contributors (writers) to that newsletter, indeed. Thank you, Regards, -- Tetsuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. How to get the number/moderator of XX mailinglist?! The description of this procedure is now available via cvs/committers/docs/mailinglist-tips.txt ... enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terra-intl.com/ Apache Software Foundation Committer: http://www.apache.org/~tetsuya/ fingerprint: E420 3713 FAB0 C160 4A1E 6FC5 5846 23D6 80AE BDEA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
