It's *fairly* safe to say I think that in terms of # of messages, it's never been higher in my memory (back to 2002).
[Though the MB is misleading, this year has marked a pronounced and sudden shift towards people who top-post and don't trim the quoted parts (e.g. one-line replies to whole rulesets). I blame mail clients that hide the quoted parts by default (though I don't know if that's the reason, and "blame" is the wrong word because it's mostly minor style preference). There - a wholly Agoran quibble to a congratulations message - but the activity, however measured, and sentiment very appreciated]. On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: > Agora-Discussion traffic last month was 6 MB, significantly more than > our previous record of 2 MB from May. In addition to this, > Agora-Business traffic was a record setting 2 MB. Although these > records only go back to July 2013 (when archive gzip'ing ended), they > are an impressive sign that Agora is alive and well. Keep up the good > work! > > -Aris > > > * All data from: > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/ > and https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/ >
