> For whoever asked, according to the SJ Merc this morning, egroups
> suppports 800,000 groups with about 17 million members (doesn't say
> if that's total subscriptions or unique addresses, but implies the
> latter)
Those numbers were from their press release. It makes it pretty clear that
17 million is "users", different people. Other reports say that they're
adding 1.5 million users/month, and sending 2 billion messages/month, and
eGroups is a real Internet company and loses pots of money, something
like $12M loss on under $4M revenue for the latest six months.
It also points out that Yahoo has 145 million users, so if they can encourage
even a modest fraction of them to sign up for eGroups lists, that's a heck of
a lot of spam^H^H^H^H opt-mostly-in mail.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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