li [Rick Harrison] mi tulis la ...
> Previously we discussed looking at the number of members and amount of
> activity in Yahoo Groups as a way to estimate the vitality of varius
> conlangs. As I look at the member list of the Toki Poni group, I
> discover another flaw in this technique. Many of the "members" are
> bot-created spammer accounts!
>
> alexis-sabry256@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> josalyne-overfelt774@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ...and so forth, all tagged as "bouncing" (meaning the accounts have
> been deleted and email from the group is not reaching them). There are
> also quite a few legitimate human-created accounts that are now
> bouncing for whatever reason.
>
> I am too lazy to look at the entire list and count the number of
> accounts that are bouncing, but it is clear that the number of
> _functioning_ email accounts on the TP group is much lower than the 310
> that shows up on the group's homepage. Apparently dead email accounts
> can stay on the list and continue to be counted in perpetuity.
I'm in the Toki Pona group too. It is a fairly active list,
enough so that I have it sent in "digest" mode because I'm
mainly just a lurker there.
No, you can't count on member****p lists even without spammer
accounts. They give numbers, but those numbers don't show who's
lurking, who's active, or who joined a long time ago and lost
interest. The only way to really see is to join the list and
see how many are actually posting, and what types of posts.
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