<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>imo, it is an imperfect but useful bit of information to gauge the relative popularity of the mailing list. In Oct 2010, i asked the same question for some popular NLP/SMT mailing list:<br>
</div> Corpora list : 3600<br></div> EAMT - 792<br></div> Moses - 630<br><br></div>Hope that helps someone<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 August 2013 11:02, Trevor Jenkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com" target="_blank">trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br>
On 21 Aug 2013, at 10:56, Alon Lischinsky <<a href="mailto:alischinsky@gmail.com">alischinsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2013/8/21 Trevor Jenkins <<a href="mailto:trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com">trevor.jenkins@suneidesis.com</a>> write:<br>
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>> But "subscribers" is a meaningless notion when anyone can access<br>
>> the archives of the list without being on the circulation list. It tells<br>
>> potential subscribers nothing. It tells current subscribers nothing.<br>
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> That's hand-waving the question away.<br>
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</div>Appropriate metaphor given what I do.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> You don't know what exactly Ramesh intends to get out of this information, and you haven't made<br>
> the slightest attempt to find out. What makes you so sure that your<br>
> objections would apply?<br>
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</div>The onus is on Ramesh to explain what his purpose was in the first place.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> In any case, I would say that the number of subscribers is an<br>
> imperfect but useful informal proxy for readership when other<br>
> variables are roughly comparable (e.g., one web-archived mailing list<br>
> to another).<br>
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</div>But we have no way of determining readership of web archives. Unless someone trawls through the web server access logs and extracts the relevant data. You might was well say that 1 is as useful an approximation for pi as any other in the calculation of ballistic trajectories.<br>
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Regards, Trevor.<br>
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<>< Re: deemed!<br>
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