[Mailman-Users] 8 Processes - is this normal for Mailman?

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Hi, I am running mailman, and I noticed when I type "top" to see system 
processes, I see 8 instances of the user "mailman" running "python".  Is 
this normal?  Why 8 times?

Thanks.
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