On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured > from this page: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/ > > If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them > interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then > nothing below matters. > > Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at > how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the > last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to > less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was > surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in > 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of > correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast > these days.
I think traffic on ALL mailing lists has dropped, just like usenet. Web forums are the normal place to go these days. Only us technological dinosaurs are still using e-mail lists and newsgroups. :)
