I wonder if doing analysis on the message content would show any light=20
on the cause?

Perhaps the drop in quantity is related to the reducing of the number of=20
berating messages from Olin, and the replies they always seemed to=20
generate?




On 2014-12-09 14:43, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> In my archives (starting mid 2002), year 2003 was the peak at 37K
> messages, then 33K, 31K, 28,26,24,16,15.5,14,6.9,5.6 for 2013.  I may=20
> of
> course have some missing but the serious drop in volume is
> unmistakeable.  Probably will have 5.5K for 2014.
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> I attribute it to (mainly) the availability and quality (both UI and
> content) of web forums, which were nearly nonexistent 10 years ago -
> personally I prefer mailing lists but I'm middle aged.  Secondly most
> newbies start with Atmel now.
>=20
> I frankly don't miss Olin I have to admit.
>=20
> Thanks for the stack exchange tip.
>=20
> J
>=20
>=20
> RussellMc wrote:
>> On 10 December 2014 at 01:51, Nicola Perotto <nicola@nicolaperotto.it>
>> wrote:
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>>> My Piclist archive is contained in 5 folders:
>>>=20
>>>     from                to            days  msgs     msgs/day
>>> 2004.09.07    2006.08.20    712    14457    20,3
>>> 2006.08.21    2008.08.31    741    14975    20,2
>>> 2008.08.31    2010.07.31    699    28095    40,2
>>> 2010.08.01    2012.12.31    883    22321    25,3
>>> 2013.01.01    2014.12.09    707    11810    16,7
>>>=20
>>> Thanks for the information.
>>=20
>>>=20
>> This aside, I miss Olin.
>>=20
>> Join Stack Exchange Electronics as well -  you can get a dose of Olin=20
>> (and
>> me and a number of other PICList members as well).
>>=20
>>=20
>>         Russell McMahon
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