From lojbab@lojban.org Mon Aug 13 22:59:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 05:59:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 84115 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 05:59:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 05:59:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 05:59:54 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (209-8-89-101.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.101]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7E5xqa00505 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:59:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010814015129.00c89f00@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:58:15 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:03 PM 8/13/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la lojbab cusku di'e > >There are also close to 250 > >people subscribed to this list, and I'm sure not all of them have bought > >the reference grammar. > >I wonder how many actual people those 250 addresses >represent. I've made an effort to estimate this a couple of times, and I have the historical basis of the old listserv version of Lojban List, where people gave a first and last name when they signed up. Probably around 10% of the list membership is dual subscriptions for people, sometimes where this is done intentionally. There are a lot of lurkers out there. But what is noteworthy is that so many of the subscribers are serious enough that I don't see a flood of unsubscriptions when we have a volume peak like we are currently experiencing. A certain Thanksgiving weekend back in 1995 or 1996 when 250 messages were posted resulted in something like 20% of the list at that time unsubscribing. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org