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This page details the traffic on the ``clarissa'' mailing list from its founding in Feb 92 to the present.

Below is a record of how many messages per month are in the list archives. (See the List FAQ for info about how to get old list mail.)

It should be noted that this is not necessarily the number of messages that were actually posted to the list. Some messages have been deleted because they were ``useless'' stuff like ``subscribe me'' or ``unsubscribe me'' messages or ``junk mail''. Also, a few messages may have just slipped through the cracks.

Nevertheless, this should give a good indication of how list traffic has varied over the years.

First the raw data: (* = appears to be missing messages)

##  month   messages     ##  month   messages
--  ------  --------     --  ------  --------
 1  Feb 92     26 *?     26  Mar 94    116
 2  Mar 92     24        27  Apr 94    184
 3  Apr 92     23        28  May 94     85
 4  May 92     19        29  Jun 94     43
 5  Jun 92     19        30  Jul 94    111
 6  Jul 92     22        31  Aug 94     53
 7  Aug 92     27        32  Sep 94     99
 8  Sep 92      8 *?     33  Oct 94    147
 9  Oct 92     51        34  Nov 94    137
10  Nov 92     34        35  Dec 94    113
11  Dec 92     24        36  Jan 95    124
12  Jan 93     27 *      37  Feb 95    112
13  Feb 93     77        38  Mar 95    149
14  Mar 93     30        39  Apr 95    165
15  Apr 93     25        40  May 95    226
16  May 93     21        41  Jun 95     89
17  Jun 93     22        42  Jul 95     80
18  Jul 93     18        43  Aug 95     63
19  Aug 93     26        44  Sep 95    129
20  Sep 93     44        45  Oct 95    155
21  Oct 93     42        46  Nov 95    131
22  Nov 93     50        47  Dec 95    260
23  Dec 93     46 *      48  Jan 96    392
24  Jan 94    114        49  Feb 96    499
25  Feb 94    112

And now the graphs.

First a text version:

                CLARISSA LIST TRAFFIC (Feb 92 - Feb 96)

        +----------------------------------------------------
   500 -+                                                *
        |
        |
 # 400 -+
        |                                               *
 m      |
 e 300 -+
 s      |                                              *
 s      |                                       *
 a 200 -+                          *
 g      |                                *    **     *
 e      |                       ***   *   ****      * *
 s 100 -+            *              *   *        **
        |        *          ****     * *           *
        |******** *** ******
     0 -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--
        0         10        20        30        40        50

                               month

And now a graphics version:

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