I'll take on compiling the list and I'll depend on more knowledgeable
members of this list to supply the data.
Ed
At 09:29 PM 11/1/04 -0800, william(at)elan.net wrote:
Some time ago a question was asked here how widespread is the use of
mail lists and which kind and what do these lists do with the emails that
pass through (i.e. if signatures from different proposals would survive
the list or not). While I don't have good answer for you in general, on
another list I just saw a post that mentioned another earlier post from
MARID which had list and statistics on what kind of lists are mirrored
by gmane. This is a good start and based on it we can see which are the
most popular list software programs and can ask 5 most popular lists
(which together account for 95% of the lists if we consider gmane data to
be good projection for overall global use of mail lists) to give estimate
how many people are using their software and also compare how these lists
work (yes - another comparison matrix, any volunteers?)
Below I've included the actual list from original post at
http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg00880.html
sender MAIL FROM
mailman 3346 y y
ecartis 115 y y
autoshare 1 n y
lyris 13 n y
communigate 5 y y
listar 46 y y
smartlist 15 y y (also sets Resent-Sender)
smartgroups 7 n y
yahoogroups 249 n y
topica 12 n y
cz 1 n y
majordomo 606 y y
letterrip 1 y y
petidomo 1 y y
minimalist* 12 n sort of
sympa 49 n y
listserv 8 y y
listserv-name 81 y y
listproc 10 y y
fml 23 n y
listguru 1 y y
ezmlm 689 n y
listbox 4 y y
imail 1 y y
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net