Valdis writes:
Solipsism has no place in protocol design.
Not solipsism. Just a reluctance to believe that you are an official--or
even an unofficial--spokesperson for LSoft.
Granted, but since *your* claim is that most people
don't do any mailing lists, or very few, I'm not
willing to concede any adjustment there.
What you do or do not concede is of little import, since readers can draw
their own conclusions.
Either you have 120M people each on one list,
or most people are on more than one - your choice.
Or you may have 10 million people on an average of 12 lists, which seems
very plausible to me.
Sure, it's only 20M people(*) if the *average*
person is on 6 lists - but that's not the behavior
you claimed is average.
I'd say that 95% or more of all Internet users are not subscribed to any
list at all. Many of the remaining 5% are subscribed to many lists.
(*) Feel free to work the exact number out for
a Gaussian distrib around a mean of 6 with
different standard deviations if you want -
we're talking ballpark numbers here anyhow. ;)
I think my point is made without it.