<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 21 Aug 2013, at 08:34, "Krishnamurthy, Ramesh" <<a href="mailto:r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk">r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I believe it would be of benefit to existing subscribers,<br>as well as to prospective subscribers, to know how many<br>subscribers corpora-list has at any given time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Reminds me of the 1960s British sitcom "Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width".</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">I failed to discover the answer at the corpora-list website,<br><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/17723">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/17723</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">…<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Mean that /<i>any/</i> published estimate is wrong. Interested parties can access the archives whether official or unofficial making them a a reader of the list without their ever being a formal subscriber. To publish any number would be as misleading as not publishing it. </div><div><br></div><div>Decades ago Brian Reid then of Digital's Western Research Lab used to publish readership estimates for Usernet newsgroup. There came a point when the figures he published were no longer meaningful because the information carried on Usenet was accessible through other means. </div><br><div>
Regards, Trevor.<div><br></div><div><>< Re: deemed!</div>
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