[ih] Closing the list? NO!

[Joe Touch]

Hi, Jack,

We currently have 713 email addresses subscribed, however:
	- some people may subscribe from multiple addresses (so they can post from each)
	- some addresses are lists themselves (exploders)

Note that the interface doesn’t give me an easy way to dump the full list out so I can do further analysis.

I can note that we have been active every year since July 2001*, but there’s no direct dump of that either for further analysis.

(Apologies for missing our 25th anniversary, but consider this at least a confirmation that we’re still going strong)

Joe (list operator)

> On Nov 5, 2026, at 11:52 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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