[ih] Closing the list? NO!

[Jack Haverty]

IMHO, the popularity and content of a mailing list is driven by the 
population of that list and the material that they post.    It's often 
difficult to determine much information about that population though.

JoeT -- can you tell us anything about the population of this list, 
e.g., how many subscribers, how they are distributed around the 'net and 
planet, etc.?

/Jack

On 11/5/26 11:26, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> That IETF list never attracted any serious traffic. Over 13 years 
> there were ~101 messages, mainly useless, all archived at 
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/nethistory/
>
> Regards/Ngā mihi
>    Brian Carpenter
>
> On 06-Nov-26 08:17, Joe Touch via Internet-history wrote:
>> This list isn’t closing; it’s the IETF’s list that is.
>>
>> Joe (list operator)
>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2026, at 11:14 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history 
>>> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's this about closing this list?  It's too important to close.  
>>> We need more internet Historians!
>>>
>>> Miles Fidelman
>>

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