On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:11:25 +0200, Anthony Atkielski
<anthony(_at_)atkielski(_dot_)com> said:
As I've indicated, a great many Internet users never post to USENET and do
not participate in mailing lists.
The guys at LSoft Inc feel otherwise...
http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv
Number of public lists 75,526
Number of local lists 209,846
Total number of lists 285,372
Total membership (public+local) 131,394,317
Total messages delivered today 24,758,359
That's *only* for LSoft's Listserv product, and does *NOT* include all the
intranet installs of Listserv. In fact, I suspect it only covers some 400
registered installs of their commercial product - the free and trial versions
don't register themselves and won't be included in those numbers.
This doesn't include MailMan, ezmlm, Majordomo, or any other software. Note
that LSoft is *NOT* the market-share leader.
I think we can conclude that a great many Internet users *DO* participate in
mailing lists.
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