Do these stats also include "allow-subscribed" people ?
I would have to check with Ken who provides the ezmlm stats service, but I'm not convinced that it would add up to something meaningful - since there's a fair number of "one-post-wonders" in the allow database (i.e. from crossposting, or change of email addresses, etc). Gmane messes up these stats anyhow, I'm afraid. Add distro mirroring into this equation, and it becomes rather difficult to measure the effective growth (or decline) of a project's popularity (especially its user community, since developers tend to be more physically present on the lists - writing mails). That's where Sourceforge beats ASF in terms of gauging project activity (although the activity stats of SF don't represent that much valuable info of course).
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